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2 Samuel 13 - Introduction

2 Samuel 13:1-22. Amnon's shameful outrage

This chapter relates how the doom pronounced on David's house began to receive its fulfilment (1) by Amnon's shameful outrage on Tamar, (2) by Absalom's murder of Amnon in revenge for that outrage.

The events here related probably occurred soon after David's marriage with Bath-sheba. See Introd. ch. IV. p. 26.

Dean Stanley points out how "the story, revolting as it is, has the interest of revealing to us the interior of the royal household beyond that of any other incident of those times. (1) The establishments of the princes. (2) The simplicity of the royal employments. (3) The dress of the princesses. (4) The relation of the king to the princesses and to the law." Smith's Dict. of the Bible, iii. 1433.

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See also 2 Samuel 13 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _AMNON FORCETH HIS SISTER, AND AFTERWARDS HATETH HER, AND PUTTETH HER FROM HIM: ABSALOM REVENGES THE INJURY BY THE DEATH OF AMNON, AND FLIES TO THE KING OF GESHUR._ _Before Christ 1034._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 13 2 Samuel 13:1-14 _Amnon's sin with Tamar._ Amnon was David's oldest son by Ahinoam, his Jezreelite wife. Tamar was the daughter of David and his wife Maacah. Tamar was the sis...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:9 anguish (a-16) Others, 'bewilderment.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XIII. The series of narratives that follow, as far as 2 Samuel 22, are chiefly accounts of the misfortunes that befel David and his household after his great sin. These are entirely omitted from the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 13 This chapter relates some of the evils that were to arise out of David's house, and which were similar to the evils committed by him; the deflowering of his daughter,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2972. B.C. 1032._ Amnon ravishes Tamar, 2 Samuel 13:1. Absalom kills him, 2 Samuel 13:21. David mourns: Absalom flees to Geshur, 2 Samuel 13:30....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Amnon louing Tamar, by Ionadabs counsell faining himselfe sicke, rauisheth her. 15 Hee hateth her, and shamefully turneth her away. 19 Absalom entertaineth her, and concealeth his purpose. 23 At...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * Ammon's violence to his sister. (1-20) Absalom murders his brother Ammon. (21-29) David's grief, Absalom flees to Geshur. (30-39)...

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