"and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife."
Author: 1 Samuel 18 Verses #: 27
David, "a man after God's own heart" goes out and kills 200 men and brings their foreskins to King Saul in order to obtain King Saul's daughter as his wife. David eventually has countless wives in the course of his lifetime. So many wives that no one really knows how many wives he had. David uses extreme violence against another tribe to prove his manhood and qualifications to become attached to the royal household. The barberism of the tribal desert warfare was horrible, and yet David is an ultimate biblical hero second only to Jesus. We are led to believe that his one failure was that of adultery and the murder of Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba's husband, when in fact, David did not show restraint when accumulating wives or attacking and murdering neighboring tribes. He was a man of war and of violence. I don't see how it can beneficial to teach young children about this biblical hero unless the church is wanting to continue world dominance through militarism and war....in which case....David can be a useful and very violent role model.
