Dissatisfaction in Israel towards David’s Administration during Absalom’s Revolt (2 Samuel 13: 1-20: 1-49): A Comparative Discourse with Ghana’s Political Affairs
Abraham Nortey 
Issue: Vol.11 No. 6 2025 Issue Article 1 pp.234 – 245
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.20251161 | Published online 19th June, 2025.
© 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
The current study investigates how Absalom’s revolt unveiled challenges that the David administration faced to juxtapose these indices with similar crises facing Ghanaian political administration since it obtained self-governance. The study adopts a comparative approach proposed for studying the Bible by Brent A. Strawn. The paper reveals that both events that occurred under David’s administration during the revolt and events that have been reported in Ghana’s politics, though different in context, share similar incidents. Such events include indiscipline issues, delays in the adjudication process, imbalanced concentration of government activities among urban and rural areas, unhealthy partisan practices and finally, the incidence of ethnocentric tendencies. The paper suggests that such issues, when not handled properly, lead to dissatisfaction with the leadership of the nation. The study recommends that all political leaders must thoroughly deal with corrupt officials in case they abuse their office or misconduct themselves. Also, the judicial service must expedite their adjudication processes and give quick verdicts within a reasonable time frame to avoid thwarting justice, national resources must be fairly distributed and Ethnocentric tendencies should not colour our political appointments and alliances. The paper pinpoints loopholes in the Ghanaian political system since it obtained independence and offers what to consider as the way forward in a comparative study involving issues concerning Absalom’s revolt.
Keywords: Administration, Arbitration, Revolt, Politics, Ethnicity, Tribalism, Indiscipline and Crisis.
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Abraham Nortey is a Lecturer at Pentecost University and serves as a Pastor of the church of Pentecost. He teaches various courses related to the Old Testament at Pentecost University. Previously, he worked as Teaching Assistant and Demonstrator at the Cape-Coast University from 2012 to 2015 and held a position as a part-time lecturer at St. Nicholas Anglican Seminary, Aquarium in Cape -Coast from 2015 to 2016. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Religion & Human Values and History, from the University of Cape- Coast; a Master Degree in Classical Hebrew from Holy Land University in Jerusalem, Israel and an M.Phil in Old Testament Studies, also from university of Cape-Coast. He has recently published one article on “The works of the Spirit of God in Public Leadership: Selected Readings from the Old Testament, in Pentecost Journal of Theology and Mission; and another article: The Use of the Bible in the Modern Court System: Appropriateness of the practice, with Noyam.
Nortey, Abraham. “Dissatisfaction in Israel towards David’s Administration during Absalom’s Revolt (2 Samuel 13: 1-20: 1-49): A Comparative Discourse with Ghana’s Political Affairs,” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 11 no.6 (2025): 234 – 245. https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.20251161
© 2025 The Author(s). Published and Maintained by Noyam Journals. This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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