Absalom Returns

Absalom Returns

Joab, seeing David wishing for Absalom’s return but unwilling to get him himself, devised a scheme with a woman from Tekoa. The woman came to David as her king and told a sad tale of her two sons. David, realizing Joab’s hand in this, called him in and ordered him to bring back Absalom. But because of his ban from seeing his father David, he too began to nurse a hatred for him. Beginning to devise how he would take the throne from himself.

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2 Samuel 14:24
In our prior episode, we learned how David’s family began to unravel, a consequence of his sin with Bathsheba and a direct result of his choice to marry many women. When his son Amnon raped his own sister Tamar, Tamar sought refuge with David’s son Absalom, who took revenge and killed Amnon. Absalom hated his father for his failure to intervene and punish Amnon, and as he lived in exile, Absalom planned for the day he would return to punish his father too. Today we’ll hear of Absalom coming out of hiding, aided by David’s commander Joab, who hopes to convince David to forgive his son.
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