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Hey, this is Shelby and CJ.

CJ, we're walking through Second Samuel.

We've been walking through first and second

Samuel for quite a while now. But we just have a few days left. And we ended a difficult episode

yesterday. David was basically told that violence and calamity are going to follow his family

for all of their days. So I mean, that's what we're

walking into in these chapters. Do we see that taking place? Yeah, so Second Samuel 13 is another

brutal chapter where Amnon lefts less after his half-sister Tamar. Amnon and Tamar are David's

children. And he Amnon assaults Tamar.

And Absalom, who's another one of David's children, is enraged.

And he plots to kill Amnon and eventually does.

And then Absalom flees.

And Amnon's actions against his half-sister remind us of David's actions against Bathsheba.

And this, again, is kind of going back to Nathan's Oracle, where he says, in the same way that you've been acting, that's how your family's going to end up operating moving forward and how your kingdom is going to be complicated and embroiled in all this chaos

and whatnot.

And in these chapters, David starts to feel really passive, which is also alarming, I think,

for us as readers, because we expect after the Davidic covenant that it would almost be

like utopian for the rest of

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