2 Samuel 13:23-29

Amnon’s murder 13:23-29

Absalom patiently and carefully plotted revenge on Amnon.

". . . As the sheep of Absalom would lose their wool (2 Samuel 13:23-24), so David’s firstborn, the potential shepherd of Israel, would lose his life (2 Samuel 13:28-29)." [Note: Youngblood, p. 968. ]

Absalom finally killed his brother at Baal-hazor, 15 miles north-northeast of Jerusalem, two years later (ca. 985 B.C.). As Amnon’s rape of Tamar reprised David’s adultery with Bathsheba, so Absalom’s execution of Amnon mirrored David’s murder of Uriah (cf. Galatians 6:7). David’s sons were chips off the old block. [Note: Fokkelman, p. 125.]