Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
Amnon, the first-born son, would not hearken to the voice of his sister Tamar. Being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her. The deed was a shameful, foul, unnatural and incestuous crime that made him doubly guilty, for the law pronounced death upon the adulterer.
David suffered the crime to pass unpunished and unrebuked, failing to bring the offender to justice because he was self-condemned by his own sin. Absalom, as the natural protector of his sister so foully wronged, concealed his purpose of revenge for two full years. Then, at a feast of the king's sons, he had the drunken Amnon slain by his command.
Amnon's crime was among the wrongs done by David's sons and the troubles in David's family. Those evils kept David's own sin continually before his mind and made him feel its consequences. The slaying of Amnon fulfilled part of the twofold judgment already pronounced upon David under his own sentence.
Amnon, the first-born son, would not hearken to the voice of his sister Tamar. Being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her. The deed was a shameful, foul, unnatural and incestuous crime that made him doubly guilty, for the law pronounced death upon the adulterer.
David suffered the crime to pass unpunished and unrebuked, failing to bring the offender to justice because he was self-condemned by his own sin. Absalom, as the natural protector of his sister so foully wronged, concealed his purpose of revenge for two full years. Then, at a feast of the king's sons, he had the drunken Amnon slain by his command.
Amnon's crime was among the wrongs done by David's sons and the troubles in David's family. Those evils kept David's own sin continually before his mind and made him feel its consequences. The slaying of Amnon fulfilled part of the twofold judgment already pronounced upon David under his own sentence.