Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.”
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Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, “Now put this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.”
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Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
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Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said: 'Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.' —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, boy.
Or, boy.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered…
2Sa 13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her.
Ver. 17. Put now this woman out from me.] His evil conscience he could not so easily thrust out of his bosom: this the poets call furies, quia ex furentibus cogitationibus promanant. Oh that we could cast out the idols of our hearts in like sort, saying unto them, Get ye hence! {Isa 30:22} Oh that we could, out of pure hatred of our sins, as heartily desire to forego them, as to have them forgiven: to part with them, as to have them pardoned!
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then he called his servants that ministered unto him,....…
Then he called his servants that ministered unto him,.... His domestic servants that waited on him:
and said, put now this woman out from me; she not willing to depart at once, he ordered her to be put out immediately by force; using her and speaking of her in a very rude and scandalous manner, calling her this, leaving it to be supplied, as they would understand it, this base woman, this strumpet, &c.
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and bolt the door after her; that she might not return; this was more disgraceful still.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain bolt the door after her--The street door of houses…
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, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Ammon's mind.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Put now this woman out.—Amnon doubtless intended to…
(17) Put now this woman out.—Amnon doubtless intended to give the impression that Tamar had behaved shamefully towards him. The baseness of this insinuation is in keeping with his brutality.
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