After His Own Heart

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.

(1 Samuel 13:14) ESV

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

(Acts 13:22) ESV

We found that the characteristics of the heart include all corrupt and impure thoughts and intents for which purpose gravity was created to attract. As such, the gravity node upon which our soul is seated resides in the heart. The heart is distinct from the mind.

Heart, Characteristics

AspectAttributeTraitCharacteristicScripture
SoulHeartThoughtsBitterness
Covetousness
Evil eye
Evil thoughts
Imagination
Wisdom
Pride
Trembling (fear)
Genesis 8:21
Deuteronomy 28:65
Proverbs 2:10
Ezekiel 27:31
Matthew 15:19
Mark 7:21-22
SoulHeartIntentsAdulteries
Blasphemies
Deceit
False witness
Foolishness
Fornications
Lasciviousness
Murders
Thefts
Wickedness
Isaiah 44:21
Jeremiah 17:9
Matthew 15:19
Mark 7:21-22
– Characteristics of the Heart

After his own heart is only ever used to refer to King David, who’s a picture of someone who has complete faith that the power of God is available to do what’s right and necessary.

And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

(1 Samuel 17:49) KJV

Sunk is a translation of the Hebrew taba, a Hebrew gravity concept. The synthesis here, in the context of a person who is after his own heart, given that the heart is the seat of the soul which is a node of gravity, is someone who’s not afraid to use the power of gravity to destroy a superior enemy.

Hebrew Gravity Concepts

UsageHebrewTransliterationScripturePost
Descendingיֹ֝רְד֗וֹתyoredotProverbs 7:27
He hath establishedמֵכִ֥יןmechinJer. 10:12, 51:152/4
Settethשָׂ֤םsumJob 28:32/5
Setteth fastמֵכִ֥יןmechinPsalms 65:62/4
Thereof fastenedטָבַעtabaJob 38:42/3
They sankוְצַלְמָֽוֶתtsalmavethExodus 15:102/5
To sink, sankיִמַּ֣ךְmakakEc. 10:182/4
Were settledטָבַעtabaProverbs 8:252/3
– A doctrine of gravity is extensively developed in the OT Hebrew.

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