Nov2025
Betrayal and grief
by Tim Klein
The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: ‘O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom, my son, my son!’ (2 Samuel 18:33).
Nov2025
A monument to me!
by Tim Klein
During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King’s Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, ‘I have no son to carry on the memory of my name.’ He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day (2 Samuel 18:18).
Nov2025
Conspiracy!
by Tim Klein
… Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him. Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the people of Israel (2 Samuel 15:5,6).
Nov2025
God knows what’s inside us
by Tim Klein
In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom (2 Samuel 14:25a).
Nov2025
Where there’s death, there’s hope
by Tim Klein
Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat! (2 Samuel 12:21)
Nov2025
Living in eternity
by Tim Klein
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive (Luke 20:38).
