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"David went on to raise the money for the temple, but he also knocked up his neighbor's wife and had her husband killed to hid his indiscretion, which (I believe) was partly why he didn't get to build the temple himself insead of Solomon. Isreal had a series of good and bad (some outright evil) Kings. While David was a good man and one of the better kings they had, even he wasn't perfect, which caused problems sometimes."

Just curious? What do you have to do to be a "bad man" in your book?

That's what I'm saying. Sometimes good people do bad things. The only person ever to walk this earth without flaws was Jesus.

David effectively commited murder, but the Bible also says he was a man after God's own heart. He defeated Goliath. He always dealt justly with Saul. David did a lot to make arrangements to have the temple built. He also wrote a lot of the book of Psalms. Plus, Jesus was his descendant. So, clearly the Bible intends to present him as a positive figure on the whole. Just a flawed one.