david s sins impact his children and his grandchildren all the way down. david s sons have grown up learning how to deal with women from their father. two of david s sons grow up to be rapists. reporter: and indeed, david it did suffer the consequences of his actions. the child he s conceived with bathsheba dies. and he mourns and mourns and mourns. and again, you get the old attractive lovely david again. we have to look at david in both ways. he rose to the height of power, and he sunk to the depths of depravity. and yet he comes back. he repents. reporter: and the bible tells us that god never stops loving david. he forgives the sins of this imperfect hero. david was given a second chance, a second child with bathsheba, a son named solomon.
money or fame or a big house or the right fashion, just the right pair of shoes. all of these could also be false idols. reporter: so it seems that despite solomon s best efforts he too was a disappointment. and before he died, as a punishment, god told him the kingdom he loved would be no more. coming up what do we know about the ark of the covenant? and why have so many thought they could find it? we head deep under the city of jerusalem. it s a journey to find the ark of the covenant when back to the beginning with christiane amanpour continues. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn.
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martin luther king saying that just before he died as if it was a premonition. i mean, you must have thought of that a lot. well, of course i ve thought of that a lot. i thought that he understood that his transition was at hand. he understood that it might even be a violent transition. and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you, but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land! next from jericho to jerusalem, david and goliath, king solomon and the queen of sheba, what happened to the ark of the covenant? and is this the staging ground for the armies of the apocalypse? when back to the beginning with christiane amanpour continues.
he runs it according to corve, according with forced labor. he s married or marrying hundreds of wives and hundreds of concubines, who as the bible say took his heart astray. reporter: the wives solomon took tone hans ties with foreign kingdoms turned him to their idols and eventually corrupted his own relationship with god. and the story of solomon s downfall is an interesting window into the religious practices of the early israelites. people worshiped many gods. you could pick them up. you could see them. you could pray to them and expect that they would have effect. this wasn t the judaism that we know today. archaeologists have found evidence that the israelites worshiped idols before david and until the time of jesus. there are those who say i suspect somewhat metaphorically that we still worship false idols, whether it s, you know,