Great Lives David: A Man of Passion and DestinyGreat Lives David David was a man after God's own heart . . . What does it mean to be someone "after God's own heart" David, Old Testament Shepherd, king, and psalmist, offers an answer in the shape of his own life. In many ways he was a most extraordinary manintelligent, handsome, abundantly gifted as a poet, musician, warrior, and administrator. Yet in other ways he was a most ordinary manoften gripped by destructive passion, rocked by family chaos