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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

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