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The sense of the passage probably is, “And she spake with him on
account of this great wrong in sending me away, greater than the other
wrong which thou hast done me (said she), but he hearkened not u...
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3. FURTHER CHASTISEMENT: AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM
CHAPTER 13
_ 1. Amnon's wicked desire (2 Samuel 13:1)_
2. The incest (2 Samuel 13:6)
3. His hatred (2 Samuel 13:15)
4. Amnon murd
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2 SAMUEL 13. AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM (J).
2 SAMUEL 13:1. Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister,
Tamar, the full sister of Absalom. He might have married her (2 Samuel
3:5 *) but did not...
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NO CAUSE. Hebrew "[Give] no ground for talk".
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra`a `._ App-44....
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There is _no cause_ The Heb. text cannot be so translated, and is
certainly corrupt. The Sept. is also confused, but its original
reading as indicated by the Old Latin Version gives an excellent
sense...
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THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY— The flux and reflux of passion in
a brutal breast are here finely painted. Commentators are at a loss to
account for this sudden and excessive hatred; and, indeed, th...
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_Absalom Kills Amnon._ 2 Samuel 13:15-29
15 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...
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_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....
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THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE
This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in
Chronicles....
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Amnon was adding insult to injury....
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DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL
2 SAMUEL
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 13
AMNON AND TAMAR
V1 David had a son called Absalom and another son called Amnon.
Absalom had a beautiful sister called Tamar. Am...
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THERE IS NO CAUSE. — The Hebrew is elliptical and difficult; various
interpretations are suggested, among which that given in the
Authorised Version expresses very well the sense, although not an
accu...
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וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר לֹ֗ו אַל ־אֹודֹ֞ת הָ
רָעָ֤ה
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CHAPTER XVII.
_ ABSALOM AND AMNON._
2 Samuel 13:1.
LIVING sorrow, says the proverb, is worse than a dead. The dead sorrow
had been very grievous to David; what the living sorrow, of which this
chapt...
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ABSALOM EXECUTES JUDGMENT
2 Samuel 13:15
When men yield to irregular passion, they go from one extreme to the
other-from wicked love to wicked hate. If women would but realize
this, how often it wou...
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The story of Amnon's sin is of a sin committed by a child of David
similar to his own. When the story was told to him, we are told that
he was wroth. We are not told that he disciplined Amnon. How cou...
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_Greater, as being more public; (Tirinus) and all would think her
guilty of some horrible misdemeanor. (Haydock) --- It made the
divulging of the crime in some degree necessary. (Menochius) ---
Unhapp...
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(16) 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. (17) Then he called his servant that m...
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In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course
no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only
a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13.
The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer
acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings
go...
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AND SHE SAID UNTO HIM, [THERE IS] NO CAUSE,.... For such treatment as
this:
THIS EVIL IN SENDING ME AWAY [IS] GREATER THAN THE OTHER THAT THOU
DIDST UNTO ME; not that this was a greater sin, but it w...
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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.
Ver. 16. _There is no cause,_] _sc., _...
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_Then Amnon hated her exceedingly_ His mind, which at first had been
impelled by lust, was now agitated by remorse, which drove it to a
different extreme, like the vibration of a pendulum. The horror...
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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...
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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. The Hebrew text
shows an unfinished sentence, spoken in great agitation: On ac...
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AMNON SPURNS TAMAR...
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WICKEDNESS INVADING DAVID'S FAMILY
David did not have to wait long to see the sad governmental results of
his sin begin to be manifest in his own family His son Ammon was so
attracted by the beauty o...
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1-20 From henceforward David was followed with one trouble after
another. Adultery and murder were David's sins, the like sins among
his children were the beginnings of his punishment: he was too
ind...
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THERE IS NO CAUSE, to wit, given thee by me. THIS EVIL IS GREATER THAN
THE OTHER: this she might truly say, because though the other was in
itself a greater sin, yet this was an act of greater inhuman...
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CONTENTS: Ammon's crime. Absalom's vengeance for Tamar's wrong.
CHARACTERS: David, Absalom, Ammon, Tamar, Jonadab.
CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts are their own punishment and not only war
against the sou...
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2 Samuel 13:2. _He fell sick for his sister Tamar._ Most young men who
have come to ruin, have followed some blind and impetuous passion.
2 Samuel 13:13. _The king will not withhold me from thee._ In...
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_Absalom the son of David had a fair sister._
THE WICKEDNESS OF AMNON
No other book but the Bible dare have inserted such a chronicle as
this and yet have hoped to retain the attention and confidence...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:1 Nathan had warned David of “evil...
out of your own house” (2 Samuel 12:11) as a result of his sin with
Bathsheba. Chapters...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:15 THEN AMNON HATED HER. Having
succeeded in seducing Tamar, Amnon’s professed love for her quickly
turned to hatred. THIS WRONG... IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER. If a man
sed...
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CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—
2 Samuel 13:1. “ABSALOM” and “TAMAR” were the children of
Maacha, and “AMNON” was David’s eldest son by Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess (see chap 2 Samuel 3:2).
2 Samuel 13:2
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EXPOSITION
2 SAMUEL 13:1
AFTER THIS. This phrase, as we have seen on 2 Samuel 10:1, has little
chronological force, but the date of the sad event which formed the
second stage in David's punishment c...
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So we find that the problems begin very soon thereafter.
David had a son by the name of Amnon, and Amnon was talking with a man
who was called his friend (2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 13:3),
Yet, I would c...
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2 Samuel 13:16...
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No cause — For me to go. Greater thou the other — This she might
truly say, because though the other was in itself a greater sin, yet
this was an act of greater cruelty, and a greater calamity to her...