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Day 152 - Read 2 Samuel 13-14

Amnon, the son of David, loved his sister Tamar. He tricked her into being in his chamber and violated her by laying with her. Amnon then hated Tamar and sent her away in shame. Absalom, another son of David, took Tamar into his house. Absalom had Amnon killed. Absalom fled to Geshur, where he stayed for three years. Joab sent a woman to reason with David concerning Absalom. David sent for Absalom, but he required Absalom to remain in his own house. Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two years apart from King David. He insisted that Joab speak to the king. Absalom was summoned and the king welcomed and kissed him.

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Amnon, the son of David, loved his sister Tamar. He tricked her into being in his chamber and violated her by laying with her. Amnon then hated Tamar and sent her away in shame. Absalom, another son of David, took Tamar into his house. Absalom had Amnon killed. Absalom fled to Geshur, where he stayed for three years. Joab sent a woman to reason with David concerning Absalom. David sent for Absalom, but he required Absalom to remain in his own house. Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two years apart from King David. He insisted that Joab speak to the king. Absalom was summoned and the king welcomed and kissed him.

Welcome to the Daily Bible Reading. Today we are reading 2nd Samuel 13 and 14. Amnon, the son of David, loved his sister Tamar. He tricked her into being in his chamber and violated her by laying with her. Amnon then hated Tamar and sent her away in shame. Absalom, another son of David, took Tamar into his house. Absalom had Amnon killed. Absalom fled to Gashor where he stayed for three years. Joab sent a woman to reason with David concerning Absalom. David sent for Absalom but he required Absalom to remain in his own house. Absalom lived in Jerusalem for two years apart from King David. He insisted that Joab speak to the king. Absalom was summoned and the king welcomed and kissed him. Read along with me in 2nd Samuel 13. Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar. And after a time, Amnon, David's son loved her. And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her. But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonah Dab, the son of Shemna, David's brother, and Jonah Dab was a very crafty man. And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister." Jonah Dab said to him, "Lion your bed and pretend to be ill, and when your father comes to see you say to him, let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat and prepare the food in my sight that I may see it and eat it from her hand. So Amnon laid down and pretended to be ill, and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight that I may eat from her hand." Then David sent home to Tamar saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him." So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house where he was lying down. And she took dough and needed it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes. And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Send out everyone from me, so everyone went out from him." Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. But when she brought them near to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister." She answered to him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel. Do not do this outrageous thing. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you. But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her." Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up, go." But she said to him, "No, my brother, for this wrong and sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me." But he would not listen to her. He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out for my presence and bolt the door after her." Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So as servant put her out and bolted the door after her. And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her long robe that she wore, and she laid her hand on her head and went away crying aloud as she went. "And her brother Absalom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this to heart." So Tamar lived a desolate woman in her brother Absalom's house. When King David heard all these things, he was very angry. But Absalom spoke to Amnon, neither good or bad. For Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar. After two full years, Absalom had sheep shears at Bel-Hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom embodied all the king's sons. And Absalom came to the king and said, "Behold your servant has sheep shears. Let the king and his servants go with your servant." But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son. Let us not all go lest we be Burnhamsome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing. Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you strike Amnon, then kill him. Do not fear, have I not commanded you, be courageous and be valiant." So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled. While they were on their way, news came to David. Absalom has struck down all the king's sons, and not one of them is left. Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth, and all the servants who were standing by tore their garments. But Jonah Dad, the son of Shemnah, David's brother, said, "Let not my Lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar. Now therefore let not my Lord the king, so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead for Amnon alone is dead. But Absalom fled, and the young man who kept the watch lifted his eyes and looked, and behold many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain. And Jonah Dad said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come, as your servants said, so it has come about. And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold the king's sons came, and lifted up their voices and wept, and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly. But Absalom fled and went to Tamar, the son of a menahood, king of Ghishor, and David mourned for his son day after day. So Absalom fled and went to Ghishor and was there for three years, and the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon since he was dead." 2 Samuel 14. Now Joab, the son of Zairiah, knew that the king's heart went out to Absalom, and Joab sent to Tkoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, "Pretend to be a morner and put on morning garments. Do not anoint yourself with all, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead. Go to the king and speak thus to him, so Joab put the words in her mouth, and when the woman Tkoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, "Save me, O king." And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" And she answered, "Alas, I am a widow, my husband is dead." And your servant had two sons, and they crawled with one another in a field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him. And now the whole clan has risen against your servant and said, "Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed." And so they destroyed the heir also. Thus they would quench my soul that is left and leave my husband neither named nor remnant on the face of the earth. Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you." And the woman Tkoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house, and let the king and his throne be guiltless." And the king said, "If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again." Then she said, "Please let the king invoke the lord, your god, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall on the ground." Then the woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak." And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in given this decision and the king convicts himself in as much as the king does not bring his vanished one home again. We must all die. We are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life. And he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast. Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. In your servant thought, I will speak to the king. It may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who will destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God. And your servant thought the word of my lord the king will set me at rest. For my lord the king is like an angel of God to discern good and evil. The lord your God be with you. Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak." And the king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me. And it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant. In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know things that are on the earth. Then the king said to Joab, "Behold now I grant this. Go bring back the young man Absalon." And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessing to the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight. My lord the king." And that the king has granted the request of his servant. So Joab arose and went to Kishor and brought Absalon to Jerusalem. And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house. He is not to come into my presence." So Absalon lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king's presence. Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearances as Absalon. From the soul of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. And when he cut the hair of his head for at the end of every year he used to cut it. When it was heavy on him he cut it. He weighed the hair of his head two hundred shekels by the king's weight. There were born to Absalon three sons and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman. So Absalon lived two full years in Jerusalem without coming into the king's presence. Then Absalon sent for Joab to send him to the king but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time but Joab would not come to him. Then he said to his servants, "See Joab's field is next to mine and he is barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalon's servants set the field on fire. Then Joab arose and went to Absalon at his house and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" Absalon answered Joab, "Behold I sent word to you. Come here that I may send you to the king to ask. Why have I come from Goshor? It would be better for me to be still there. Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king and if there's guilt in me let him put me to death." Then Joab went to the king and told him and he summoned Absalon so he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king and the king kissed Absalom.