1After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.stylus2 Samuel 3:2, 2 Samuel 3:3, 1 Chronicles 3:9, 2 Samuel 3:2, 2 Samuel 3:32Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.stylus2 Corinthians 7:10, 1 Kings 21:4, Song of Solomon 5:8, 2 Corinthians 7:10, 1 Kings 21:43Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,stylus1 Samuel 16:9, 1 Samuel 16:9, 1 Corinthians 3:19, 1 Corinthians 3:19, Genesis 38:204so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”stylusEsther 5:13, Esther 5:14, Luke 12:32, Jeremiah 8:12, Leviticus 20:175Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”stylusMark 6:24, Mark 6:25, Mark 6:24, Mark 6:25, 2 Samuel 16:216So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”stylusGenesis 18:6, Genesis 18:6, Matthew 13:33, Matthew 13:337Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”stylus8So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.stylus9Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.stylusGenesis 45:1, Genesis 45:1, Judges 3:19, John 3:20, Judges 3:1910Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.stylus11And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”stylusGenesis 39:11, Genesis 39:12, Genesis 39:11, Genesis 39:1212“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!stylusJudges 19:23, Judges 20:6, Leviticus 20:17, Judges 19:23, Judges 20:613Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”stylusGenesis 19:8, Judges 19:24, Genesis 20:12, Genesis 19:8, Judges 19:2414But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.stylus2 Samuel 12:11, 2 Samuel 12:11, Judges 20:5, Deuteronomy 22:25, Deuteronomy 22:2715Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”stylusEzekiel 23:17, Ezekiel 23:1716“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.stylus17Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”stylus18So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.stylusJudges 5:30, Genesis 37:3, Judges 5:30, Genesis 37:3, Genesis 37:3219And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.stylusJeremiah 2:37, Joshua 7:6, Jeremiah 2:37, Joshua 7:6, 2 Samuel 1:1120Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.stylusGenesis 34:2, Genesis 46:15, Romans 12:19, Proverbs 26:24, Genesis 34:221When King David heard all this, he was furious.stylusGenesis 34:7, Genesis 34:7, 1 Samuel 2:29, 1 Samuel 2:22, 1 Samuel 2:2522And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.stylusLeviticus 19:17, Leviticus 19:18, Genesis 31:24, Leviticus 19:17, Leviticus 19:1823Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.stylusGenesis 38:12, Genesis 38:13, 1 Samuel 25:4, Genesis 38:12, Genesis 38:1324And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”stylusJeremiah 41:6, Jeremiah 41:7, 2 Samuel 11:8, 2 Samuel 11:15, Psalms 12:225“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.stylusGenesis 19:2, Genesis 19:3, Luke 14:23, Luke 24:29, Judges 19:726“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.stylus2 Samuel 20:9, Psalms 55:21, 2 Samuel 11:13, 2 Samuel 11:15, 2 Samuel 3:2727But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.stylusProverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:26, Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:2628Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”stylusJudges 19:6, Judges 19:6, Judges 19:9, Judges 19:22, Judges 19:929So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.stylus1 Kings 1:33, 2 Samuel 18:9, 1 Kings 1:33, 2 Samuel 18:9, Genesis 36:2430While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”stylus31Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.stylus2 Samuel 12:16, 2 Samuel 1:11, 2 Samuel 12:16, 2 Samuel 1:11, Joshua 7:632But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.stylusPsalms 7:14, Genesis 27:41, 2 Samuel 13:3, 1 Samuel 16:9, Proverbs 24:1133So now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”stylus2 Samuel 19:19, 2 Samuel 19:1934Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”stylus2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, Genesis 4:8, Genesis 4:14, Amos 5:1935So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”stylus36And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.stylus2 Samuel 13:15, 2 Samuel 18:33, 2 Samuel 12:21, 2 Samuel 13:15, 2 Samuel 18:3337Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.stylus2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 14:32, 1 Chronicles 3:2, 2 Samuel 13:3438After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.stylus2 Samuel 14:23, 2 Samuel 14:32, 2 Samuel 15:8, 2 Samuel 14:23, 2 Samuel 14:3239And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.stylusGenesis 24:67, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 37:35, Genesis 38:12, Genesis 37:35