2 Samuel 13:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

2 Samuel 13:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 no...
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

no cause . Hebrew "[Give] no ground for talk". evil . Hebrew. ra`a `. App-44.
2 Samuel 13:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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.
2 Samuel 13:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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,...
2 Samuel 13:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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.
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 a...
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Absalom Executes Judgment 2 Samuel 13:15-27 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 ofte...
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
2 Samuel 13:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
2 Samuel 13:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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.,...
2 Samuel 13:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - 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 13:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 in...
2 Samuel 13:16 - 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 13:16 - 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 13:16 - 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 13:16 - 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 13:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amnon Spurns Tamar
2 Samuel 13:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 13:16
2 Samuel 13:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 h...

2 Samuel 13:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

2 Samuel 13:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

2 Samuel 13:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 13:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 Samuel 13:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2 Samuel 13:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

2 Samuel 13:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

2 Samuel 13:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

2 Samuel 13:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 13:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes