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2 Samuel 13:1-39 open_in_new
The Crime of Amnon, and Absalom's Vengeance
This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles.
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2 Samuel 13:2 open_in_new
Tamar was in the women's apartments, and, therefore, safe. She was his half-sister and Absalom's sister: see 2 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 3:3.
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2 Samuel 13:4 open_in_new
Lean from day to day] i.e. getting thinner and paler every morning.
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2 Samuel 13:5 open_in_new
Make thyself sick] RV 'feign thyself sick.'
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2 Samuel 13:13 open_in_new
He will not withhold me] Tamar said this as a last, desperate expedient, for such marriages were unlawful (Leviticus 18:9).
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2 Samuel 13:16 open_in_new
Amnon was adding insult to injury.
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2 Samuel 13:18 open_in_new
Garment of divers colours] RM 'a long garment with sleeves': cp. Genesis 37:3.
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2 Samuel 13:20 open_in_new
He is thy brother] So Tamar could not reproach herself for having gone to see him.
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2 Samuel 13:23 open_in_new
Ephraim] an unknown town.
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2 Samuel 13:37 open_in_new
Talmai] Absalom escapes to his grandfather (2 Samuel 3:3) to avoid the revenge of Amnon's relatives.
David mourned] His sin was finding him out, and he was tasting the first bitter fruits of it in the death of one son and the alienation of another.