When reading the story of the life of David, it is easy to make it all about the shepherd boy turned king. The tendency is to read the details of his life as history and seeing the various stories surrounding his life as purely biographical in nature. But it's important that we remember that we are reading divinely inspired Scripture, and there is far more here than meets the eye. David was a real man and the accounts we have about him in Scripture are true. But, ultimately, these passages are about something far greater. They provide a foreshadowing of someone far more important to come. And, in the case of David, his life provides us with some fascinating parallels to the Good Shepherd and King of kings who was to come. If we look closely at 1 Samuel 23:1-14, we can see some similarities between David and Jesus that are far from coincidental in nature. They are meant to link the man after God's own heart with the Son of Man in whom God was well pleased. David was a type of Christ, a man chosen by God to be king over His people and provide salvation from their enemies. Yet, like Jesus, David would find himself rejected by his own people.
