Absalom certainly subscribed to the idea that revenge is a dish best served cold. Two whole years pass. It looks like he’s perhaps ready to let it go, that he’ll take his cue from his father and just leave it. Yet the thought of ignoring what’s been done to his sister doesn’t cross Absalom’s mind. For those two years he’s […]

David ‘heard about all these things, and he was very angry’, v21. That’s good. But that was all he did, and that’s bad. David becomes the third father in the books of 1st and 2nd Samuel to ignore the sin of his sons. The first was Eli, then Samuel, and now David. All believers. All saved men. Yet they had […]

Amnon has committed a crime for which he will be murdered before too long. Tamar’s hopes and dreams for the future are ruined. And who’s behind it all, humanly speaking? Who facilitated it all? Jonadab. He’s one of those snake-like characters who always come out of things unscathed. He does the whispering. He pulls the strings. But he doesn’t get […]