" David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, intending to build a temple, but God, speaking to the prophet Nathan, is pleased, saying the temple will be built.

" The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: " Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight?

Bathsheba, David's favorite wife, and Nathan the prophet go to David and procure his agreement that Solomon, Bathsheba's son, should sit on the throne.

Nathan ( prophet ) | Nathan confronts David ; bronze bas-relief by Henri de Triqueti.

Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build the first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.

* Nathan of Gaza, a theologian and author who became famous as a prophet for the alleged messiah, Sabbatai Zevi

While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.

But the prophet Nathan and Bathsheba induced David to give orders that Solomon should immediately be proclaimed and admitted to the throne.

In 2 Samuel 12: 8, God tells David through the prophet Nathan, " I gave your master's house to you, and your master's wives into your arms.

Nathan of Gaza, the scholar closest to Zevi, who had caused Zevi to reveal his Messiahship and in turn became his prophet, never followed his master into Islam but remained a Jew, albeit excommunicated by his Jewish brethren.

Sabbatai, realizing that Jerusalem was not a congenial place in which to carry out his plans, left for his native city, Smyrna, while his prophet, Nathan, proclaimed that henceforth Gaza, and not Jerusalem, would be the sacred city.

The reproach of Nathan ( prophet ) | Nathan and the penance of King David ( Paris Psalter, folio 136v, 10th century ).

David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king.

As a result of this murder, David was rebuked by the prophet Nathan ; furthermore, later turmoil in David's household and throughout the kingdom of Israel, including the death of Bathsheba's baby and the insurrection of prince Absalom, was contemporarily explained as punishment for the sins of adultery and murder.

* Nathan, a prophet who lived in the time of Kings David and Solomon

* Nathan of Gaza, 17th century prophet

According to the " Jebusite Hypothesis ," however, the Jebusites persisted as inhabitants of Jerusalem and comprised an important faction in the Kingdom of Judah, including such notables as Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Bathsheba, the queen and mother of the next monarch, Solomon.

Gihon is the name of the only natural spring of water in the vicinity of Jerusalem ( the place where King Solomon was anointed by the priest Zadok and Nathan ( prophet )).

The King was severely reprimanded for this sin by the prophet Nathan and suffered a Divine retribution, though unlike with the colonel it involved the death of David's baby son and not of himself.

A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

Kierkegaard started out, in Either / Or, by saying, "“ You know how the prophet Nathan dealt with King David when he presumed to understand the parable the prophet had told him but was unwilling to understand that it applied to him.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.

As Lex Luthor attempts to ambush Libra after learning that he is a prophet of Darkseid, Lex Luthor soon ends up surrounded by Justifiers.

Wearing his costume as a false prophet of the Church of England or his wizard's pointy hat, he has been speaking there at lunchtimes in the summer months ever since and soon featured in guide books.

At first the town was called South Bend ( due to the proximity to a bend in the Sevier River ), but soon after its settlement it was renamed Alma, in honor of the Book of Mormon prophet.

Succeeding generations saw Leo as a prophet and a magician, and soon a collection of oracular poems and some short divinatory texts, the so-called Oracles of Leo the Wise, at least in part based on earlier Greek sources, were attached to the Emperor's name in later centuries, and were believed to foretell the future of the world.

As soon as Zaid arrived, the caliph, instead of greeting him as a direct descendant of the prophet, abused him with such abominable language that it can not be repeated.

He proclaimed himself a prophet, and was soon followed by between 20, 000 and 30, 000 insurgents, mostly peasants, but some of them deserters from the Nizam Gedid, for that force was yet in a half-organized state.

They were soon followed by the " prophet " himself, the baker Jan Matthys of Haarlem.

Allah ( God ) sent his prophet Moses to save children of Israel from pharoah, he gave him great power to face the pharaoh and win over him, he succeeded and save his people and as soon as he went to listen to God's orders, they rejected his message even that Haroon / Aaron was present among them, this made Moses very mad about his brother but later he asked for mercy from the almighty for him, his brother and those people, Allah accepted.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

The Book of Haggai is named after its presumed author, the prophet Haggai.

For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.

But after they had left the house of the prophet, fully determined to sacrifice their lives to God, Ezekiel received this revelation: " Thou dost believe indeed that I will abandon them.

Three centuries after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Arab Caliphates extended from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Central Asia in the east.

Spike Milligan plays a prophet, ignored because his acolytes are chasing after Brian.

< p > prophet Mormon was not named after his father ; he was named after the land of Mormon.

The initial Muslim conquests began in the 7th century after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and were marked by a century of rapid Arab expansion beyond the Arabian Peninsula under the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates.

Islam proclaims that its prophet Muhammad was the " seal of the prophets ", and that no further prophets would come after him.

According to Islamic history, the Israelites, after the time of the prophet Moses, wanted a king to rule over their country.

In the context of biographical records of Muhammad sunnah often stands as synonymous with hadith since most of the personality traits of Muhammad are known from descriptions of him, his sayings and his actions after becoming a prophet at the age of forty.

Some sources even identify Shem as a prophet in his own right and that he was the next prophet after his father.

Although Seth is not mentioned, Muslims see Seth as a prophet like his father, and the one who continued teaching mankind after the death of Adam.

This is largely due to the fact that their prophet, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, came over 1, 300 years after Muhammad, who is viewed as the " last of the prophets " by Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi variants of Islam.

* Where the prophet Elisha was hospitably entertained by a rich woman whose son Elisha later revived after the son died.

Added to this were some 200 Cherokee from the Nantahala area allowed to stay in the Qualla Boundary after assisting the U. S. Army in hunting down and capturing the family of the old prophet, Tsali.

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War ( told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia ): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Gargano in Magna Graecia.

In Greek mythology, Halithersês ( Ἁλιθέρσης ), son of Mastor, was an Ithacan prophet who warned the suitors of Odysseus's wife Penelope after interpreting the symbols that Zeus sent to " be wise in time, and put a stop to this wickedness before he comes.

The city is named after Moroni, a prophet in the beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ).