2 Samuel 13:1-39
THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAMAR was in the women's apartments, and, therefore, safe. She was his half-sister and Absalom's sister: see 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 3:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEAN FROM DAY TO DAY] i.e. getting thinner and paler every morning.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE THYSELF SICK] RV 'feign thyself sick.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL NOT WITHHOLD ME] Tamar said this as a last, desperate expedient, for such marriages were unlawful (Leviticus 18:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
Amnon was adding insult to injury.... [ Continue Reading ]
GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS] RM 'a long garment with sleeves': cp. Genesis 37:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE _is_ THY BROTHER] So Tamar could not reproach herself for having gone to see him.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM] an unknown town.... [ Continue Reading ]
TALMAI] Absalom escapes to his grandfather (2 Samuel 3:3) to avoid the revenge of Amnon's relatives. _David_ MOURNED] His sin was finding him out, and he was tasting the first bitter fruits of it in the death of one son and the alienation of another.... [ Continue Reading ]