When David's son Absalom killed his brother Amnon to revenge the rape of his sister, King David did nothing, but Absalom fled.
No doubt David was morally compromised by his own sin with Bathsheba and his murder of her husband Uriah the Hittite. He could hardly punish his son Amnon, much less Absalom for engaging in vigilante justice on behalf of his aggrieved sister.
Perhaps exile was the best possible end to the matter, but David's heart longed after Absalom his son.
Joab therefore orchestrated a woman of Tekoah to bring a false case before the king, in order to urge him to find a way to return the exiled son back home again.
She uttered these wise words: "For we must needs die, neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him."
In these words, we have a description of God's great plan of redemption by the Gospel, for in Christ He has devised a means to restore His banished ones.
We deserved far worse than banishment, for our sins have driven us from the presence of a Holy and Just God. And yet, because He loves us, He has devised the glorious Gospel plan of redemption to save us and bring us back into His loving presence for ever!
All King David could do was choose to ignore Absalom's crime, but even then there was a residual alienation between David and his wayward son. Forever between them, there was Absalom's unjudged murder, and David's own unclean hands, so that their mutual sin kept them from ever reconciling.
That alienation ultimately led to Absalom's rebellion and death.
Praise God, there is no unjudged sin to keep us from God's love, for He has judged it already in Jesus!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
