2 Samuel 12:26-13:5 –
Meanwhile Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal
citadel. Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, “I have fought
against Rabbah and taken its water supply. Now muster the rest of the
troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will take the city, and
it will be named after me.” So David mustered the entire army and went
to Rabbah, and attacked and captured it. David took the crown from their king’s head, and it was placed on his own head.
It weighed a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones. David took a
great quantity of plunder from the city and brought out the people
who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and
axes, and he made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army
returned to Jerusalem. In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. Amnon became so
obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and
it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her. Now Amnon had an
adviser named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd
man. He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king’s son, look so haggard
morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I’m in
love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.” “Go to bed and pretend to
be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would
like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the
food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’”
2
Samuel 11:27 – After the time of
mourning was over, David had her brought to his house,
and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done
displeased the Lord.
Application:
- · Even while the Lord was displeased with David, he gave the Israelites victory over a people who had abused them.
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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