1. The Hebrew Bible, yes. By the time of Chronicles there was a positive view of David. 2. Scripture, for the most part, is not a recipe book.
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The analogy to baking is recognizing the difference between prophecy and poetry/hymns. If you can’t tell the difference, I’m unlikely to trust your interpretation of it. Same as if you can’t tell the difference between a box of brownie mix and a box of lemon bars, I’m unlikely to eat your baking.
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The Book of Psalms is tricky. When a Jewish king is inaugurated, the liturgy and hymns refers to the king as 'the Son of God', an honourific. It is unreasonable to expect a Christian readership not to reinterpret 'Son of God' through a different lens.
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Outside of certain sects of Christianity including books that would be deemed apocryphal by Jewish standards, it’s the same set of books. Mostly, the question is in translation and in ordering. While many English translations use the Septuagint, that’s because it’s what the early authors used.
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