Here in this chapter we have a touching story. We have emotional manipulation, and people who allow themselves to be manipulated. But the long term outcome of it all – as we’ll see when we get to chapter 18 – is death. Death for Absalom and for many others. Because the wages of sin is always death, sooner or later. […]

If we only had the human characters in this chapter to look at, I think we’d despair. All we could do would be weep. Weep with Tamar. But also weep over the lack of righteousness seen in all the other characters. But one very important question we haven’t asked yet is: Where is God in all this? Because he’s not […]

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 […]