Walter Brueggemann thoughtfully examines four different David narratives from the books of 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Each narrative reflects a particular social context, a particular social hope, and a particular community, thus offering a distinctly different mode of truth concerning David: the trustful truth of the tribe (1 Sam 16:1 and 2 Sam 5:5) the painful truth of the man (2 Samuel 8-20 and 1 Kings 1-2) the sure truth of the state (2 Sam5:6-8:18).