Most underrated Biblical stories?

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I got into a conversation about this the other week with a friend, and it kind of reinforced to me how undervalued Hebrew Bible lore is to most Christians. But my personal favorite of these would be the story of Absalom in 2 Samuel.

To summarize: Absalom was a son of David, who avenged the rape (and subsequent rejection, which would render her non-marriage material) of his sister, Tamar, by killing his brother, Amnon (who pretended to be sick in bed and had Tamar bring him hotcakes before assaulting her).

Despite killing another royal, Absalom's own life was ultimately spared and he was exiled for a few years. But despite caring very much for his sister, he was otherwise a very self-absorbed man who'd been effectively cut off from his royal inheritance. For someone like Absalom, this was a fate worse than death, and that would lead to him revolting against David by having sex with all of his concubines in public view, and declaring himself king - for what would ultimately be a very short time.

The ensuing war, between those loyal to David and those loyal to Absalom, ended with Absalom fleeing through a forest and his long hair being entangled in an oak tree. Against David's orders, his military commander Joab had Absalom killed and his body delivered to David (not explaining that this was his own doing, in order to prevent David from sparing his life again), who then cried over his fallen son and lamented that it had not been him in his place, despite everything that had happened.

The moral themes/lessons of Absalom's story are abundant and they're fairly obvious: pride and the lust for power, rape, vengeance, incest, sex with married women (though it should be noted God never endorsed David's own polygamous ways per se). But it's not exactly a story we would hear most preachers pontificate about these days, for reasons which are also obvious. And thus it is seldom told or known to most laypeople.