2 Samuel 13:19

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 13:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Laid her hand on her head - To hold on the ashes (see the marginal references). Went on crying - i. e. “went away, crying out as she went.”
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 Ab...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

laid her hand . Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, put for "grieved".
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. T...
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.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Went on crying. — Literally, went going and cried; i.e., as she went away she cried aloud. Tamar put on every external mark of the deep grief wit...
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 griev...
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 wick...
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....
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 heark...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Tamar put ashes on her head ,.... In token of sorrow and distress; see Joshua 7:6 ; and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. Ver....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Tamar put ashes upon her head To signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was, concurring circumstances easily dis...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Amnon's Incest. B. C. 1032. 1 And it c...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Put ashes on her head, and rent her garment; to signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was concurring circumstan...
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 Ahi...
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 Samue...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Amnon Spurns Tamar
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Tamar, as a sign of her great grief over the shame laid upon her, put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 1:2 ; Jeremiah 2:37 ; Job 2:12 ; Job 42:6 ; Joshua 7:6
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Put ashes — To signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was, concurring circumstances easily discovered. Head — In...

¹⁹ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 13:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

2 Samuel 13:19