2 SAMUEL

Chapter 10 of the book-“NON-CONTRADICTORY CONTRADICTIONS”

X. 2 Samuel

1 In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David.

2 Amnon became frustrated to the point of illness on account of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.

3 Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man. 4 He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king’s son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?”

Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

5 “Go to bed and pretend to be ill,” Jonadab said. “When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘I would like my sister Tamar to come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I may watch her and then eat it from her hand.’”

6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “I would like my sister Tamar to come and make some special bread in my sight, so I may eat from her hand.”

7 David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare some food for him.” 8 So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made the bread in his sight and baked it. 9 Then she took the pan and served him the bread, but he refused to eat.

“Send everyone out of here,” Amnon said. So everyone left him. 10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food here into my bedroom so I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in his bedroom. 11 But when she took it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister.”

12 “Don’t, my brother!” she said to him. “Don’t force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don’t do this wicked thing. 13 What about me? Where could I get rid of my disgrace? And what about you? You would be like one of the wicked fools in Israel. Please speak to the king; he will not keep me from being married to you.” 14 But he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.

15 Then Amnon hated her with intense hatred. In fact, he hated her more than he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and get out!”

16 “No!” she said to him. “Sending me away would be a greater wrong than what you have already done to me.”

But he refused to listen to her. 17 He called his personal servant and said, “Get this woman out of here and bolt the door after her.” 18 So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. She was wearing a richly ornamented robe, for this was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore. 19 Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the ornamented robe she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away, weeping aloud as she went.

20 Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has that Amnon, your brother, been with you? Be quiet now, my sister; he is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” And Tamar lived in her brother Absalom’s house, a desolate woman.

21 When King David heard all this, he was furious. 22 Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad; he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sister Tamar. 2 Samuel: Chapter 13:1-22 (The Holy Bible, New International Version)

In this chapter we continue the story from chapter 4-Numbers-where we left the two Dlamini farm supervisors realising that they had made a terrible mistake which was going to cost them their jobs.

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There she was again. It was, as usual, just before 05:30 in the morning and she had started her jog around the farm. Sipho had first noticed her about five or six days ago. Since the first time he had seen her in her jogging outfit, he could not get her out of his mind. Sipho knew that his fascination with this girl was slowly developing into a dangerous obsession.  He, however, could not help himself.

According to Sipho, this girl had come out of those “fancy fashion magazines” and somehow made an appearance at the farm. As Sipho looked at her now as she increased her jogging pace, his focus was on “those bouncing breasts”. The breasts were, of course, not exposed in any way but in Sipho’s obsessed mind, he could clearly “see naked flesh” in such detail as to imagine the actual shade of the girl’s nipples.

The girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old. Sipho, who was in his early forties, was old enough to be her father. This fact did not stop him from imagining all sorts of possibilities. The girl was now getting out of view as she jogged towards the far end of the farm. If she continued to follow the path around the orange orchards and cut across the farm in an easterly direction, she would end up also going past the apple trees and could easily cover a round trip of over 10 kilometres.

Although the girl was now completely out of sight, Sipho continued to see her clearly in his mind, imagining each “bouncy step” she was taking. Last night, Sipho had surprised his wife with the intensity of his love-making because he had not shown such great ardour for a very long time. The wife, of course, was not aware that her husband was actually imagining making love to some young girl he had seen jogging earlier that day. “How can I make my dream come true?” Sipho wondered in his thoughts.

From his knowledge of the farm, Sipho suspected he knew the actual route that the girl was taking during her morning jog. He was convinced that “if something were to happen to the girl” when she was at the far end of the farm, nobody would hear her. A crazy idea was beginning to form in Sipho’s mind. What if he woke up early and waited for the girl to come along when she reached the far end of the route? Maybe the girl was actually “looking for some action”; one could never know these days with some of these teenagers. But if Sipho were to way lay her and the incident were to turn nasty, then Sipho could be in deep trouble. By now, he knew that the girl’s name was Nokutula and she was the farm manager, Themba Khumalo’s sister. She had come to the farm to visit with her brother during the school holidays.

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Themba Khumalo was now the new farm manager. When Robert Lara had come back from Jamaica, he had, almost immediately, been transferred to the company head office in Cape Town, South Africa. Although the move was a big promotion, Robert had not been entirely happy because he did not like the idea of leaving Swaziland. In the end, it was his wife who had urged him to accept the move by pointing out that they could always have time to visit Swaziland. After all Swaziland was not as far away from Cape Town as was Robert’s original home near Kingston, Jamaica. Lara’s wife was herself thrilled about the move. She had always imagined living outside Swaziland and Cape Town sounded like a perfect place.

Robert’s promotion was also good news to Themba because he took Lara’s place and became the new farm manager. Sipho and Peter Dlamini were still at the farm despite having committed an offence that would have cost anybody their job under different circumstances. It was actually Themba, the intended victim of the Dlaminis’ devious scheme, who had saved the two Dlaminis. Despite what they had done, Themba had managed to persuade the company not to fire the two men, but to just demote them whilst still retaining them at the farm. Peter and Sipho were now tractor drivers at the farm, having been demoted from their positions as supervisors.

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Sipho was still very close to Peter. It was no surprise, therefore, that he confided in him about his fascination with Nokutula, Themba’s young sister. Sipho had half expected Peter to admonish him for his thoughts but true to form, Peter thought Sipho should do something to satisfy his “lust”. In fact, Peter told Sipho that he was sure the girl “was looking for action”. Peter recounted an incident that had happened to him the other day when he had come across Nokutula soon after she had returned from her jog. Peter was convinced that the girl had winked at him and also “wiggled her behind” as she went past.

Sipho did not need much persuasion to accept this information from his trusted friend as “gospel”. He told Peter that the following day he was going to wait for the girl along her jogging route and find out “if she was ready to play”.

 “Sipho, I tell you my friend that you will be surprised that this girl is the one that is going to attack you. Maybe you should ask me to come along for your own protection!” Peter joked. On hearing this, Sipho could hardly wait for the next day to come.

The next chapter-1 Kings- will be published not later than Thursday, 27 January, 2011

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