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330 And he hears my voice in his Great House, my cry reached his ears. Then the Earth heaved and quaked, the Heaven's foundations were disturbed and shook .. . In the heavens he turned and came down, thick fog lay under his feet. Upon a Cherub he rode and flew, on the windy wings he appeared .. . From the heavens Yahweh thunders, the Most High utters his voice . .. From the heights he reached out to pick me up .. . to save me from my foe. "Forty years did David rule over the whole of Israel— seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusa- lem," it is stated at the conclusion of I Chronicles, "dying at a ripe old age." "And all that concerns David, from the first to the last words, are recorded in the books of Samuel the Seer, and the book of Nathan the Prophet, and the book of Gad the Man of Visions." The books of Nathan and Gad have vanished, as did other books—the Book of the Wars of Yahweh, the Book of Jashar, to mention two others—that the Bible speaks of. But Psalms attributed to (or sung by) David make up almost half (seventy-three to be exact) of the 150 Psalms retained in the Bible. They all provide a wealth of insights into the nature and identity of Yahweh. The significance of the statement that David ruled "over the whole of Israel" becomes evident as the wheels of history turn from the second millennium B.C. to the beginning of the first millennium B.C, when Solomon ascended the throne in Jerusalem; for soon after his death the kingdom split into separate states, that of Judaea in the south and that of Israel in the north. Cut off from Jerusalem and the Temple, the northern kingdom was more exposed to foreign customs and religious influences. The establishment of a new capital by the sixth king of Israel circa 880 B.C. signified bom a final break from Judaea as well as from the worship of Yahweh DIVINE ENCOUNTERS