Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture.

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Using the great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today today, is day 131, day 131, which is also one of my favorite Psalms.

We are reading not from that Psalm, but from 2 Samuel chapter 13, also 1 Chronicles chapter 17 in the Psalm today that we're praying is Psalm 35.

As always, the translation that I am reading is from, is the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition.

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You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe, and that would be wonderful. As I said, it is day 131. We are reading from 2 Samuel chapter 13, 1 Chronicles chapter 17 and praying Psalm 35.

2 Samuel chapter 13, Amnon defiles Tamar. Now, Absalom, David's son had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David's son loved her.

And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar for she was a virgin and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonahdab, the son of Shemia, David's brother. And Jonahdab was a very crafty man. And he said to him, oh son of the king, why are you so heggared morning after morning? Well, you not tell me.

Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. Jonahdab said to him, lie down on your bed and pretend it to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat and prepare the food in my sight that I may see it and eat it from her hand.

So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight that I may eat from her hand.

Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him. So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house where he was lying down and she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.

And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, send out everyone from me.

So everyone went out from him, then Amnon said to Tamar, bring the food into the chamber that I may eat from your hand.

And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, come lie with me my sister.

She answered him, no my brother, do not force me for such a thing is not done in Israel. Do not do this wanton folly.

As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore I beg you speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.

But he would not listen to her and being stronger than her, he forced her and lay with her.

Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her.

And Amnon said to her, arise, be gone. But she said to him, no my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me.

But he would not listen to her. He called the young man who served him and said, put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.

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