solomon was the second king of israel that became the symbol of an ideal king of israel.
solomon was the second king of israel that became the symbol of an ideal king of israel.
who was the second king of israel that became the symbol of an ideal king of israel?
solomon
in the biblical narrative, david is a young shepherd who gains fame first as a musician and later by killing the enemy champion goliath. he becomes a favorite of king saul and a close friend of saul's son jonathan. worried that david is trying to take his throne, saul turns on david. after saul and jonathan are killed in battle, david is anointed as king. david conquers jerusalem, taking the ark of the covenant into the city, and establishing the kingdom founded by saul. as king, david commits adultery with bathsheba, leading him to arrange the death of her husband uriah the hittite. because of this sin, god denies david the opportunity to build the temple, and his son absalom tries to overthrow him. david flees jerusalem during absalom's rebellion, but after absalom's death he returns to the city to rule israel. before his peaceful death, he chooses his son solomon as successor. he is honored in the prophetic literature as an ideal king and the forefather of a future messiah, and many psalms are ascribed to him.
david
the buddha is said to have set the "wheel of dharma" in motion when he delivered his first sermon, which is described in the "dhammacakkappavattana sutta". this "turning of the wheel" signifies a great and revolutionary change with universal consequences, brought about by a exceptional human being. buddhism adopted the wheel as a symbol from the indian mythical idea of the ideal king, called a chakravartin ("wheel-turner", or "universal monarch"), who was said to possess several mythical objects, including the "ratana cakka" (the ideal wheel). the "mahā sudassana sutta" of the digha nikaya describes this wheel as having a nave (nābhi), thousand spokes (sahassārāni) and a felly (nemi), all of which are perfect in every respect. siddhartha gautama was said to have been a "mahapurisa" (great man) who could have chosen to become a wheel turning king, but instead became the spiritual counterpart to such a king, a wheel turning sage, i.e. a buddha.
dharmachakra