Summary. David (1-2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-2) became Israel’s second king and received the covenant that the Messiah would come from his lineage (2 Samuel 7). In DP his reign is one of the foundational successes of the United Kingdom dispensation, though his sin with Bathsheba and its sequelae are treated as setbacks that contributed to the later division of the kingdom and the prolongation of the providence.