Hiram the king of Tyre's help for Solomon was well documented, and here now it talks about how he sent messengers a generation earlier to help David build a palace. David presumably would have used the same stuff to build the temple, had God allowed it. But that was not for him.
David had a bunch of sons, by a bunch of different women. Good, bad? Was David a lothario? A ladies' man? Was this sin? Winked at? I don't believe it was sin. Marriage was not yet established as the union of one woman and one man. I don't know. I think we have a habit of looking back at things in the Bible, and wanting to ask God, "Well, what about this inconsistency?" "Why would someone do that?" And this before we actually read and understand the text.
David routs the Philistines when God tells him to. Even when God told him to, the text says God went ahead and killed the Philistines. So the Israelite army was ancillary to what God was doing. Israel was the vessel of God's judgement on them.
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