Where is David in the beginning of the story
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Fully understanding David’s story sometimes requires following a story that skips along with connections appearing in several books of the Old and New Testaments. One of these stories starts long before David’s birth. It’s a footnote to the famous Battle of Jericho, and involves a prostitute named Rahab.
As told in Joshua Chapter 2, Rahab hid two Israelite spies sent into Jericho prior to its destruction. Soldiers hunting for the spies could not find them because Rahab hid them. For this, she was blessed by God.
Rahab is mentioned again later in the Old Testament. Though she was not born a Jew, Rahab converted and, according to a genealogy in Ruth 4, Rahab married Salmon, a prince of Judah, and later became David’s great, great grandmother. This is important because this David connection puts Rahab in the family tree of Jesus. She is included, along with David, in the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:4-6). It’s one of the most amazing details about His blood relations and the meaning of grace: A prostitute is included in Jesus’s earthly family.