Menlo Church

The problem for David is he's guilty of kind of the same thing, And his kids knew about it. And because he wasn't willing to own his own dysfunction, because he wasn't willing to be honest about what that meant in him, he ends up defaulting to passivity, which is what we often do when we are unwilling to deal with our own stuff. He didn't punish Amnon. He didn't comfort Tamar. As a matter of fact, in the text, we don't hear from him talk about it at all, likely because of the weight of his own unaddressed shame.