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ABSALOM

1. Le troisième des fils de David nés à Hébron (2Sa 3:3). Sa mère était Maaca, fille du roi de Guésur. Les chap. 2Sa 13-18, qui narrent la révolte d'Absalom, font partie d'un ensemble de récits (2Sa 9-20), dont la valeur historique n'a d'égale que la fine et vivante pénétration psychologique, encore rehaussée par un art d'exposition à la fois sobre et sentie qui ne cesse de tenir en haleine l'intérêt et l'émotion des lecteurs.

De Maaca David avait eu aussi une fille, Tamar, dont la beauté inspire à son demi-frère Amnon, premier-né des fils du roi, une passion coupable assouvie par la violence. Absalom, usant de ruse, venge l'outrage en faisant tuer Amnon. Du même coup l'héritier présomptif du trône a disparu. Absalom passe trois ans à Guésur, en disgrâce. Mais à l'instigation de Joab, le général en faveur auprès de David, il est rappelé. Il s'applique dès lors à capter la popularité, servi par son charme physique autant que par ses habiletés d'intrigant. Bientôt il dispose d'une force armée et va jusqu'à ourdir une conspiration pour détrôner son père ; il établit son quartier général à Hébron, ancienne résidence royale apparemment jalouse de s'être vue délaissée pour Jérusalem. Le vieux roi a la douleur de voir le « coeur des Israélites se tourner vers Absalom ». Devant le danger, il quitte en hâte la capitale, où l'usurpateur entre sans coup férir et marque d'emblée sa prise des pleins pouvoirs en s'appropriant le harem paternel. Dédaignant de poursuivre la petite armée loyaliste, il laisse à David le temps de se ressaisir. Lorsqu'enfin Absalom se lance à sa poursuite, à l'instigation de Husaï, émissaire secret de David, il est vaincu, puis tué de la main de Joab, dans la forêt d'Éphraïm, à l'Est du Jourdain. La douleur paternelle l'emporte en David sur le ressentiment du monarque dépossédé (2Sa 18:33, cf. 2Sa 18:5). On montrait encore au temps de Josèphe (Ant., VII, 10:3) le tombeau qu'Absalom s'était fait construire de son vivant, mais qui attendit en vain sa dépouille, ignominieusement abandonnée sous le monceau de pierres qui seul commémora son crime (2Sa 18:17-18). Le monument monolithe qui se trouve dans la vallée du Cédron et qu'on appelle tombeau d'Absalom (en arabe tantour Firaoun =bonnet de Pharaon) ne peut pas être plus ancien que les derniers Macchabées et peut même être de l'époque d'Hérode, ainsi d'ailleurs que les autres mausolées voisins (tombeaux de Josaphat, de saint Jacques, de Zacharie).

2. Père d'un Mattathias (1Ma 11:70), peut-être le même que le père d'un Jonathan (1Ma 13:11).

3. Un des deux délégués juifs auprès du gouverneur Lysias (2Ma 11:17).

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      2 Samuel 3

      3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

      2 Samuel 9

      1 David said, "Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
      2 There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "Your servant is he."
      3 The king said, "Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet."
      4 The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar."
      5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
      6 Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, "Mephibosheth." He answered, "Behold, your servant!"
      7 David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You shall eat bread at my table continually."
      8 He bowed down, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"
      9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given to your master's son.
      10 You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.
      11 Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your shall servant do." So Mephibosheth ate at the king's table, like one of the king's sons.
      12 Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.
      13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.

      2 Samuel 10

      1 It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.
      2 David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
      3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"
      4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
      5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."
      6 When the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
      7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.
      8 The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
      9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
      10 The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
      11 He said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
      12 Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and Yahweh do that which seems good to him."
      13 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
      14 When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
      15 When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
      16 Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.
      17 It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.
      18 The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.
      19 When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

      2 Samuel 11

      1 It happened, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.
      2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
      3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
      4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
      5 The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, "I am with child."
      6 David sent to Joab, "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David.
      7 When Uriah had come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
      8 David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." Uriah departed out of the king's house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.
      9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.
      10 When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"
      11 Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!"
      12 David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.
      13 When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
      14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
      15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."
      16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.
      17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
      18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
      19 and he commanded the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
      20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
      21 who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
      22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
      23 The messenger said to David, "The men prevailed against us, and came out to us into the field, and we were on them even to the entrance of the gate.
      24 The shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also."
      25 Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Make your battle stronger against the city, and overthrow it.' Encourage him."
      26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.
      27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

      2 Samuel 12

      1 Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
      2 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,
      3 but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
      4 A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."
      5 David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this is worthy to die!
      6 He shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!"
      7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man. This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
      8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
      9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
      10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
      11 "This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
      12 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"
      13 David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh." Nathan said to David, "Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.
      14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh's enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."
      15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
      16 David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.
      17 The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
      18 It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, "Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice. How will he then harm himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?"
      19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."
      20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshiped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he ate.
      21 Then his servants said to him, "What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread."
      22 He said, "While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, 'Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?'
      23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
      24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
      25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh's sake.
      26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
      27 Joab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah. Yes, I have taken the city of waters.
      28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name."
      29 David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
      30 He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought out the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
      31 He brought out the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

      2 Samuel 13

      1 It happened after this, that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
      2 Amnon was so troubled that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
      3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
      4 He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won't you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
      5 Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"
      6 So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
      7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."
      8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
      9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, "Have all men leave me." Every man went out from him.
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