Absalom
165Esther
19 Jun 2023
6:09¶ 19
“I don’t remember who to attribute it to, but somebody pointed out that these are failed types of Christ. Absalom is a failed messiah.…”
6:30¶ 21
“Yes. He fits a lot of the little bullet points, if all you were concerned with were the bullet points and not decrepit morality.…”
5:23¶ 16
“It always gets me with Absalom. It’s like I’m seeing all this imagery, but he’s the bad guy.”
135Conspiracy Theory
12 Sep 2022
19:40¶ 65
“So Absalom conspires against his older brother and murders him to avenge his sister’s purity, so there’s one. While we’re talking about Absalom, Absalom…”
19:57¶ 67
“Yes, that one. He not only tries to take over the kingdom, he does. He succeeds. He’s in charge. That’s true for a little…”
20:23¶ 68
“The sword will never depart from his house and, since he took one life, David owes God four as restitution. There was the baby…”
109Absalom
14 Mar 2022
20:16¶ 74
“Israel deserves a better king than David. It deserves, well, me!” and so he develops a very subtle plan to usurp the throne. He…”
20:47¶ 75
“As the king’s son, people would normally do him homage, but he does homage to them, kisses them, greets them, asks about what’s going…”
21:13¶ 76
“Meanwhile, he’s hired chariots and horses and foot runners to put on an outward show, and he does this for some time. It says…”