The Throne of David by Rev. J. H. Ingraham

In the form of a series of letters from two generations of princes of the Assyrian Empire to their royal sovereigns back in Nineveh and Tadmor, The Throne of David gives the reader ostensibly first-person eyewitness accounts of the life of David from the time he was a young shepherd boy tending his flock in Bethlehem, through his ascension to and reign as the King of first Judah and then all of Israel.

Published originally in 1860 as a follow-up to the wildly successful The Prince of the House of David and its sequel, The Pillar of Fire, this is the third written but the second chronologically of a trilogy of epistolary novels by Reverend Joseph Holt Ingraham called the Hebraic Power Trilogy. The Pillar of Fire (1859) is intended to illustrate the beginning of Hebraic power, The Throne of David (1860) its culmination, and The Prince of the House of David (1855) its decadence.

This particular digital version was transcribed from a 1865 re-print edition with four illustrations, and enhanced by the addition of a further seven illustrations intended to accentuate the reality and emotion of the story of Saul, David, and Solomon.