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David has sinned and repented, but there are still three of the four-fold consequences of his sins

that have yet to unfold in his life, and a lot of

that happens in today's reading. When you have a palace filled with wives and concubines and

children, there's bound to be trouble, but David probably never saw today coming.

Amnon, David's firstborn son, falls in love with his half-sister Tamar. He talks to his cousin,

Jonadab about it, who gives him some advice that isn't just bad, it's wicked. Johnadab tells

Amnon to pretend to be needy so he can pray on Tamar and rape her. Amnon sets the plan in motion,

and when Tamar tells him no and even tries to reason with him, he overpowers her.

Lust is impatient, selfish, not open to reason. This is the opposite of what we read about love

in 1st Corinthians 13. Then Amnon's so-called love turns to hate and he kicks Tamar out.

This is doubling down on his wickedness, according to Exodus 22.

The law requires him to marry her or at least honor her with a bride price.

So now he's shirking responsibility.

We're starting to see that he has perhaps inherited some of his father's worst traits.

Tamar's life is ruined. No one will marry her now. Not in this culture. So she'll be consigned to live childless and alone.

As she's mourning her situation, her brother Absalom, David's third son, see she's having a hard time and basically says the worst thing you can say

to an upset woman, which is, calm down. Absalom doesn't really know how to deal with emotions,

even though he feels lots of them himself. In fact, he hates Amnon because of what he did.

And after two years, he hatches a plan to murder Amnon. Absalom tricks him into coming

into a road trip with him, gets him drunk, and has his servant's murder Amnon. And here we see the

sins of the father manifesting in Absalom's life, too. Like his dad, he's giving orders for a murder.

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