Amnon Rapes His Sister Tamar

Amnon, David's eldest son, becomes obsessed with his half-sister Tamar. He feigns illness, lures her to his house, and violently assaults her. Immediately after, the text says 'the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love he had loved her.' He has her thrown out. Tamar tears her virgin's robe, puts ashes on her head, and lives as 'a desolate woman' in her brother Absalom's house.