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**2 Samuel 13:23** — *"Two years later, when Absalom's sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king."*
Two years. Absalom waited two years before moving against Amnon. This was not impulsive rage — it was cultivated bitterness, dressed in the ordinary clothing of a sheepshearing feast.
What makes this verse so sobering is the hospitality. An invitation. A celebration. And beneath it, a wound that had been tended in silence until it became a weapon.
Proverbs 26:24 warns us: *"Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbor deceit."*
Unforgiveness rarely announces itself. It waits. It plans. It wears a festive robe.
Hebrews 12:15 calls us to guard against *"any bitter root"* that grows up to defile many — and in Absalom's story, many were indeed defiled.
Let us reflect on what we may be hosting quietly within — and bring it, honestly, before the Shepherd who heals.
Two years. Absalom waited two years before moving against Amnon. This was not impulsive rage — it was cultivated bitterness, dressed in the ordinary clothing of a sheepshearing feast.
What makes this verse so sobering is the hospitality. An invitation. A celebration. And beneath it, a wound that had been tended in silence until it became a weapon.
Proverbs 26:24 warns us: *"Enemies disguise themselves with their lips, but in their hearts they harbor deceit."*
Unforgiveness rarely announces itself. It waits. It plans. It wears a festive robe.
Hebrews 12:15 calls us to guard against *"any bitter root"* that grows up to defile many — and in Absalom's story, many were indeed defiled.
Let us reflect on what we may be hosting quietly within — and bring it, honestly, before the Shepherd who heals.
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