In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

He asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.”