Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. And I'm Keith Simon. Right now we're working through the story of David's life found in first and second Samuel.

Well, I'm glad that you're sticking with us. If you haven't figured it out already, the latter half of David's life is dark.

And that means honestly that these episodes are living under a shadow. But I think it's a shadow we all need to live under for a little bit. It's the

shadow of human rebellion against God. Today's story takes us away from David to instead focus on his children.

And any parent can tell you this.

A child's story is always interconnected to our own.

And so any true biography out there of any parent is going to talk about their children.

Second Samuel is no exception but the story it tells about David's children it's an ever

escalating tragedy it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse.

Why? Well, it's because David's two sons, Amnon and Absalon, they catch the contagion of David's sin. They catch the contagion of the sin that

David committed against Bathsheba and Uriah, lust and murder. We read in 2nd Samuel 13, this happened sometime afterward.

Absalon, son of David, had a beautiful sister named Tamar and Amnon, son of

David, became infatuated with her.

Amnon was so distraught because of his half-sister Tamar that he became sick,

for she was a virgin and it seemed impossible to am not to do anything about it. This story is a story of untethered

lust. It's not entirely untethered though. It's almost untethered because Amnon is the crown prince and so his lust always comes tethered to power and so Amnon he hatches a plot to get Tamar alone. He pretends to be sick and then he asks for his sister to attend to him.

We continue reading in second Samuel.

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down.

She took some dough, kneaded it, and made the bread, and put it 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.

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