What is described as the 5th Payment of David's Punishment?

• A. Absalom is enthroned
• B. Joab defeats Absalom
• C. Tamar returns to Jerusalem
• D. Absalom lays with David's concubines in a tent on the rooftop

Answer: (D)

The situation shows how Nathan’s warning to David about consequences for his sin unfolds in the narrative. The fifth aspect of that discipline is fulfilled in a vivid, public act: Absalom, in his rebellion, publicly lies with David’s concubines in a tent on the rooftop, in view of all Israel. This act directly echoes the prophecy that David’s wives would be exposed to a neighbor and marks the visible, humiliating turn of events in David’s royal household. The other options refer to later or earlier moments in the storyline (Absalom’s enthronement, Joab’s defeat of Absalom, Tamar’s return) and do not capture this specific public fulfillment of the prophecy.