{"id":956,"date":"2012-04-23T05:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:23:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:23:38","slug":"2-samuel-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/23\/2-samuel-13\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Samuel 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Samuel 13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (<\/span>See our study of 2 Samuel 11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>,The Consequences of Sin [study to come], and <\/span>David\u2019s Family Tree<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

David\u2019s dysfunctional family is portrayed\u00a0in this gruesome tale of Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom. The actions taken and not taken in this chapter will haunt David for the remainder\u00a0of his life. The crux of the story is this, David\u2019s children, from various wives, fall in lust with each other. The son and daughter of a foreign princess (Maachah\u00a0the Geshurite) were Tamar, a virgin, and Absalom. They were good looking, which led to both their downfalls. Amnon, David\u2019s oldest son by a foreign wife (Ahinoam\u00a0the Jezreelite), fell in lust with her. He deceived her into sleeping with him, he raped her, and then pushed her away in disgust. According to Levitical law, he could not marry her even if he desired to (Leviticus 18.11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Her brother wants their father, David, to discipline his oldest child, which he does not. Absalom becomes quite angry and plots to kill Amnon. He is successful. The heir to the throne is murdered. Let\u2019s see what parallels this has with David\u2019s sin with Bathsheba. David slept with a woman that he should not have slept with and she was in a time of purification. David committed deception and murder to correct a sin. David is reflected\u00a0in the lives of these sons of his. No wonder he didn\u2019t want to discipline Amnon\u00a0nor Absalom. Absalom is lost too. He flees to his mother\u2019s area of the world and lives in Geshur, which is a refuge for criminals. David did not mourn the loss of his dead son, much like he did not mourn the loss of his dead son in 2 Samuel 12 (<\/span>see our study<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). Instead, he mourned the loss of his living son, which runs parallel to 2 Samuel 12 as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A generality follows:<\/p>\n

This is a warning to all women, beware the flattery and seduction of men whose sole desire\u00a0is to have sex with you. The treatment that Amnon\u00a0gave Tamar should not be\u00a0considered abnormal. It is normal. When a man is in lust with a woman and is unwilling to go through the formalities of marriage, his sole desire is the sexual experience, and not the person.<\/p>\n

How you treat women reflects your character. How you discipline your children will determine their future. Think on these matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A generality follows:
\nThis is a warning to all women, beware the flattery and seduction of men whose sole desire is to have sex with you. The treatment that Amnon gave Tamar should not be considered abnormal. It is normal. When a man is in lust with a woman and is unwilling to go through the formalities of marriage, his sole desire is the sexual experience, and not the person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,5],"tags":[244,243,245,36,147,241,240,200,242],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2-samuel","category-daily-studies","tag-absalom","tag-amnon","tag-consequences","tag-david","tag-leviticus","tag-murder","tag-rape","tag-sin","tag-tamar","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}