2 Samuel 13

"However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her. Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, 'Arise, be gone!'” vv.14-15






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Rape. It's disgusting and cruel. Yes it's in the Bible and yes it's something God hates yet can happen to the most innocent of people. This is even David's son who committed this horrible act and to his half-sister. Not that Ammon is justified or can be excused but surely the influence he grew up around did not teach him self-control as he lived in a house with one father and many step mothers of all of his father's wives and concubines, a household full of sexual excess. David seems to have been a better king than he was a father.


After Ammon gets the thing he most desired it turned into the thing he most hated. His passion had been mere animal desire, which, by a well known psychological law, when gratified turned to hatred. “It is characteristic of human nature to hate one whom you have injured” (Tacitus, quoted by Kirkpatrick).


Have you ever been the innocent victim of another's selfishness or know someone abused in this way?