The Bible Study Podcast, episode 255. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of

2nd Samuel with Chapter 13.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. So last two weeks, we saw David sinning with Bashiba.

Then we saw him being found out by God and having to suffer the consequences. But that isn't

the end of the consequences, as you may remember, as David was told. Second Samuel 13.

In the course of time, Amnon, son of David, fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom, son of David.

Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill.

She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.

Now Amnon had an advisor named Johnadab, son of Shimea, David's brother. Johnadab was a very shrewd man. He asked Amnon, why do you, the king's son, look so haggard morning after morning. Why won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. Go to bed and pretend to be ill, Johnadab said. When your father comes to see you, say to him, I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so that I may watch her and then eat it from her hand. So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand. David sent word to Tamar at the palace. Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him. So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made the bread in his sight, and baked it. Then she took the pan and served him the bread, but he refused to eat. Send everyone out of here, Amnon said, so everyone left him. Then Amnon said to Tamar, bring the food here into my bedroom, that I might eat from your hand. And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother in his bedroom. but when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, come to bed with me, my sister. No, my brother, she said to him, don't force me. Such a thing could not be done in Israel. Don't do this wicked thing. What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king. He will not keep me from being married to you, but he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her. Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred, in fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Ammon said to her, get up and get out. No, she said to him, sending me away would be a greater wrong

than what you have already done to me, but he refused to listen to her. He called his personal

servant and said, get this woman out of my sight and bolt the door after her. So his servant

pulled her out and bolted the door after her. She was wearing an ornate robe, for it was the

kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore. Tamar put ashes on her head and wearing an ornate robe, for it was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the

king wore. Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the ornate robe she was wearing. She put her hands on

her head and went away weeping aloud as she went. Her brother Absalom said to her,

Has that Amnon your brother been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother.

Don't take this thing to heart.

And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom's house, a desolate woman. When King David heard all this,

he was furious, and Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad. He hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar. Now remember several chapters ago, I mentioned

how many different wives David had and how that was going to cause some problems. So we have

Tamar, who is the sister of Absalom. Well, she is of course also the sister of Amnon as we get in this

story, but she would be half-sister of Amnon and full sister of

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