2 Samuel 13:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not forced me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. ”

2 Samuel 13:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tamar’s words are a verbal quotation from Genesis 34:7 . The natural inference is that Tamar knew the passage in Genesis, and wished to profit by the warning that it contained. (Compare also 2 Sa...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13. Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom (J). 2 Samuel 13:1-22 . Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister, Tamar, the full sister of Absalom. He might have married her ( 2 Samuel 3:5 *...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

force . humble.
2 Samuel 13:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. Nay, my brother - There is something exceedingly tender and persuasive in...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

She answered him, Nay, my brother— Amnon having mentioned his criminal passion to Tamar, she represents to him in the most lively manner the horror of his crime; that it was a violation of the laws...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. Do not force me. The remonstrances and arguments of Tamar were so...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Crime of Amnon, and Absalom's Vengeance This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.
2 Samuel 13:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Do not thou this folly. — Tamar, now left alone in the power of her half-brother, endeavours to escape by reasoning. She first speaks of the sinfulness in Israel of that which was allowed among sur...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVII. ABSALOM AND AMNON. 2 Samuel 13:1-37 . 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 thi...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sin in David's Household 2 Samuel 13:1-14 The law of Moses clearly forbade the union which Amnon sought, Leviticus 18:11 . It was an infamous passion, and the suggestion of Jonadab, if it was...
2 Samuel 13:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 co...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. (5) And Jonadab said unt...
2 Samuel 13:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And she answered him, nay, my brother ,.... Which carried in it a reason sufficient for her denial, that he was her brother, and she his sister, and therefore should not offer such an indignity to h...
2 Samuel 13:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. Ver. 12. Do not force me. ] Heb., Do not humble me; sc., by bereavi...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nay, my brother Whom nature both teaches to abhor such thoughts, and obliges to defend me from such an injury, with thy utmost hazard, if another should attempt it. Do not force me Thou oughtest...
2 Samuel 13:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 beaut...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amnon's Incest. B. C. 1032. 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of Da...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nay, my brother, whom nature both teacheth to abhor such thoughts, and obligeth to defend me from such a mischief with thy utmost hazard if another should attempt it. Do not force me: thou should...
2 Samuel 13:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 3:2-3 )....
2 Samuel 13:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Samuel 13:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 confid...
2 Samuel 13:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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'...
2 Samuel 13:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amnon's Crime
2 Samuel 13:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 22:29 ; Genesis 34:2 ; Genesis 34:7 ; Judges 19:23 ; Judges 20:6 ; Leviticus 18:11 ; Leviticus 18:9 ; Leviticus 20:17 ; Proverbs 5:22 ; Proverbs 5:23 ; Proverbs 7:7
2 Samuel 13:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Brother — Whom nature both teaches to abhor such thoughts and obliges to defend me from such a mischief with thy utmost hazard, if another should attempt it. Force — Thou shouldst abhor it, if I we...

2 Samuel 13:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 13:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 13:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 13:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 13:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 13:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 13:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 13:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 13:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 13:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes