“ But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. ”
The Septuagint adds, what is a good explanation, “but he did not vex the spirit of Amnon his son, because he loved him, because he was his first-born.” This want of justice in David’s conduct, and...
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 *...
But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. But when King David heard - To this verse the Septuagint add the following words: Και ουκ ελυπησε το πνευμα Αμνων του υἱου αυτου, ὁ...
When king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth— We may easily conceive what resentment and uneasiness David felt for this crime: but how he punished it we know not. The truth is, he c...
But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. When king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. It cannot be supposed but that David would be grieved and incen...
The Crime of Amnon, and Absalom's Vengeance This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.
He was very wroth. — The LXX. adds, “but he vexed not the spirit of Amnon his son, because he loved him, because he was his firstborn,” — which is doubtless in part the reason of David’s guilty len...
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...
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...
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...
(21) В¶ But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. Why did not David's wrath prompt him to punish the sin in his son Amnon? We hear nothing of this, neither of his bringing hi...
But when King David heard of all these things ,.... Of Amnon's ravishing Tamar, and turning her out of doors in that inhuman manner he did, and of her distress upon it: he was very wroth ; with Am...
But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. Ver. 21. But when king David heard … he was very wroth.] Why! but was that all? Wherefore did not David, as supreme magistrate, see...
When David heard, he was very wroth With Amnon: whom yet he did not punish, at least so severely as he ought to have done; perhaps, because he was his eldest son, and the next heir to his crown, an...
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...
The Plot Against Amnon. B. C. 1032. 21 But when king David heard of all these things,...
To wit, with Amnon; whom yet he did not punish, at least so severely as he should; either from the conscience of his own guilt in the like kind; or from that foolish indulgence which he oft showed to...
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 13:2 . 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...
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...
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'...
Amnon Spurns Tamar
1 Samuel 2:22-25 ; 1 Samuel 2:29 ; 2 Samuel 12:10 ; 2 Samuel 12:5 ; 2 Samuel 3:28 ; 2 Samuel 3:29 ; Genesis 34:7 ; Psalms 101:8
Wroth — With Amnon: whom yet he did not punish, at least so severely as he should either from the consciousness of his own guilt in the like kind; or, from that foolish indulgence which he often sh...