2 Samuel 13:1
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ABSALOM THE SON OF DAVID HAD A FAIR SISTER, WHOSE NAME WAS TAMAR; AND AMNON THE SON OF DAVID LOVED HER._ Tamar - daughter of David by Maachah (2 Samuel 3:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THIS, THAT ABSALOM THE SON OF DAVID HAD A FAIR SISTER, WHOSE NAME WAS TAMAR; AND AMNON THE SON OF DAVID LOVED HER._ Tamar - daughter of David by Maachah (2 Samuel 3:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AMNON WAS SO VEXED, THAT HE FELL SICK FOR HIS SISTER TAMAR; FOR SHE WAS A VIRGIN; AND AMNON THOUGHT IT HARD FOR HIM TO DO ANY THING TO HER._ For she was a virgin. Unmarried daughters were kept in close seclusion from the company of men; no strangers, nor even their relatives of the other sex,... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AMNON HAD A FRIEND, WHOSE NAME WAS JONADAB, THE SON OF SHIMEAH DAVID'S BROTHER: AND JONADAB WAS A VERY SUBTIL MAN._ Jonadab, the son of Shimeah - or Shammah (1 Samuel 16:9), who was one of David's brothers. Although none of them were promoted to places of honour and emolument under government,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, WHY ART THOU, BEING THE KING'S SON, LEAN FROM DAY TO DAY? WILT THOU NOT TELL ME? AND AMNON SAID UNTO HIM, I LOVE TAMAR, MY BROTHER ABSALOM'S SISTER._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO AMNON LAY DOWN, AND MADE HIMSELF SICK: AND WHEN THE KING WAS COME TO SEE HIM, AMNON SAID UNTO THE KING, I PRAY THEE, LET TAMAR MY SISTER COME, AND MAKE ME A COUPLE OF CAKES IN MY SIGHT, THAT I MAY EAT AT HER HAND._ Amnon lay down, and made himself sick. The Orientals are great adepts in feignin... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN DAVID SENT HOME TO TAMAR, SAYING, GO NOW TO THY BROTHER AMNON'S HOUSE, AND DRESS HIM MEAT._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE ANSWERED HIM, NAY, MY BROTHER, DO NOT FORCE ME; FOR NO SUCH THING OUGHT TO BE DONE IN ISRAEL: DO NOT THOU THIS FOLLY._ Do not force me. The remonstrances and arguments of Tamar were so affecting and so strong, that had not Amnon been violently goaded on by the lustful passion of which he h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I, WHITHER SHALL I CAUSE MY SHAME TO GO? AND AS FOR THEE, THOU SHALT BE AS ONE OF THE FOOLS IN ISRAEL. NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK UNTO THE KING; FOR HE WILL NOT WITHHOLD ME FROM THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY; SO THAT THE HATRED WHEREWITH HE HATED HER WAS GREATER THAN THE LOVE WHEREWITH HE HAD LOVED HER. AND AMNON SAID UNTO HER, ARISE, BE GONE._ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly. It is not unusual for persons instigated by violent and irregular passions to go from one ex... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, THERE IS NO CAUSE: THIS EVIL IN SENDING ME AWAY IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER THAT THOU DIDST UNTO ME. BUT HE WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO HER._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN HE CALLED HIS SERVANT THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, AND SAID, PUT NOW THIS WOMAN OUT FROM ME, AND BOLT THE DOOR AFTER HER._ Bolt the door after her. The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred, the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE HAD A GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS UPON HER: FOR WITH SUCH ROBES WERE THE KING'S DAUGHTERS THAT WERE VIRGINS APPARELLED. THEN HIS SERVANT BROUGHT HER OUT, AND BOLTED THE DOOR AFTER HER._ A garment of divers colours, х_ KªTONET_ (H3801) _ PACIYM_ (H6446)] - a tunic reaching to the palms of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TAMAR PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS THAT WAS ON HER, AND LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, AND WENT ON CRYING._ Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours ... laid her hand on her head, and went on crying - i:e., sobbing. Oriental manners would... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM HER BROTHER SAID UNTO HER, HATH AMNON THY BROTHER BEEN WITH THEE? BUT HOLD NOW THY PEACE, MY SISTER: HE IS THY BROTHER; REGARD NOT THIS THING. SO TAMAR REMAINED DESOLATE IN HER BROTHER ABSALOM'S HOUSE._ Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. He was her natural protecto... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN KING DAVID HEARD OF ALL THESE THINGS, HE WAS VERY WROTH._ When king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. It cannot be supposed but that David would be grieved and incensed at so gross an outrage, perpetrated by a member of his own family. In our version his indignation mere... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM SPAKE UNTO HIS BROTHER AMNON NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD: FOR ABSALOM HATED AMNON, BECAUSE HE HAD FORCED HIS SISTER TAMAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TWO FULL YEARS, THAT ABSALOM HAD SHEEPSHEARERS IN BAALHAZOR, WHICH IS BESIDE EPHRAIM: AND ABSALOM INVITED ALL THE KING'S SONS._ Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim. A sheep-shearing feast is a grand occasion in the East. Absalom, proposing to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABSALOM CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, BEHOLD NOW, THY SERVANT HATH SHEEPSHEARERS; LET THE KING, I BESEECH THEE, AND HIS SERVANTS GO WITH THY SERVANT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW ABSALOM HAD COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, SAYING, MARK YE NOW WHEN AMNON'S HEART IS MERRY WITH WINE, AND WHEN I SAY UNTO YOU, SMITE AMNON; THEN KILL HIM, FEAR NOT: HAVE NOT I COMMANDED YOU? BE_ _ COURAGEOUS, AND BE VALIANT._ When Amnon's heart is merry with wine ... kill him, fear not. On a preconce... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SERVANTS OF ABSALOM DID UNTO AMNON AS ABSALOM HAD COMMANDED. THEN ALL THE KING'S SONS AROSE, AND EVERY MAN GAT HIM UP UPON HIS MULE, AND FLED._ Every man gat him up upon his mule. This had become the favorite equipage of the great. King David himself had a state mule (1 Kings 1:33). The Sy... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THEY WERE IN THE WAY, THAT TIDINGS CAME TO DAVID, SAYING, ABSALOM HATH SLAIN ALL THE KING'S SONS, AND THERE IS NOT ONE OF THEM LEFT._ Tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons. It was natural that, in the consternation and tumult caused by so... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE KING AROSE, AND TARE HIS GARMENTS, AND LAY ON THE EARTH; AND ALL HIS SERVANTS STOOD BY WITH THEIR CLOTHES RENT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO TALMAI, THE SON OF AMMIHUD, KING OF GESHUR. AND DAVID MOURNED FOR HIS SON EVERY DAY._ Absalom fled, and went to Talmai. The law as to premeditated murder (Numbers 35:21) gave him no hope of remaining with impunity in his own country; the cities of refuge could afford... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ABSALOM FLED, AND WENT TO GESHUR, AND WAS THERE THREE YEARS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SOUL OF KING DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM: FOR HE WAS COMFORTED CONCERNING AMNON, SEEING HE WAS DEAD._ The soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom. The verb, being feminine, does not refer to David, neither is it correct to say that David longed to go forth to Absalom;... [ Continue Reading ]