Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.
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Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying,…
2Sa 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him meat.
Ver. 7. Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house.] David might have suspected that there was something more than ordinary in this request of Amnon, that there was vipera sub veprecula, an ill intention in this petition. But God had a purpose to chastise him, and therefore suffereth him to be led blindling to do that which he should shortly repent with every vein of his heart, as we say. Sometimes both grace and wit are asleep in the holiest and wariest breasts.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain It is strange that so wise and sagacious a…
It is strange that so wise and sagacious a person as David did not see through so vain a pretence; but that must be ascribed partly to the instincts of nature, which generally preserve near relations from such monstrous actions; and partly to God’s providence, which blinded David’s mind, that he might bring upon him the designed and threatened judgments.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then David sent home to Tamar,.... Who perhaps was…
Then David sent home to Tamar,.... Who perhaps was not in the king's palace, but at her brother Absalom's house, Sa2 13:20,
saying, go now to thy brother Amnon's house; who also had a separate house and equipage, being the king's son, and his eldest son:
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and dress him meat; such as he may desire, and his stomach will bear.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. home] Into the house: the inner part of…
7. home] Into the house: the inner part of the palace, where the women’s apartments were.
to thy brother Amnon’s house] Cp. 2Sa_13:20. Each of the royal princes evidently had a separate house.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain A princess; the daughter of David and Maacah (of…
Tamar.
A princess; the daughter of David and Maacah (of Geshur), and sister of Absalom; distinguished for her beauty, modesty, domesticity, obedience (ver. 8), tender heartedness, piety, and misfortunes. In her we see an illustration of (what has often occurred):
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1. Purity pursued by licentious desire (ver. 2).
2. Simplicity beset by wily designs (ver. 5).
3. Kindness requited by selfish ingratitude (vers. 9, 10).
4. Confidence exposed to enticing persuasions and perilous temptation( ver. 11).
5. Virtue overpowered by brutal violence (ver. 14).
6. Innocence vilified by guilty aversion (ver. 17). "So fair had she goneforth on what seemed her errand of mercy, so foully had she been driven back" (Edersheim). "Let no one ever expect better treatment from those who are capable of attempting their seduction; but it is better to suffer the greatest wrong than to commit the least sin" (Matthew Henry).
7. Sorrow assuaged by brotherly sympathy (ver. 20).
8. Injury avenged with terrible severity (ver. 28). D.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 David sent word
David sent word
This means that he sent a messenger to speak to Tamar. AT: "David sent a messenger" (See: Metonymy)
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dough
a thick mixture of flour and liquid used for baking
kneaded
used her hands to mix the dough
in his sight
This means that Tamar made the bread in front of him. AT: "in front of him" or "in his presence" (See: Idiom)
So everyone went out from him
To "go out from someone" means to leave them. AT: "So everyone left him" (See: Idiom)
translationWords
David
word
Tamar
palace
Amnon
bread
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