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 incensed at so gross an outrage, perpetrated by a member of his own family. In our version his indignation merely is declared, without the infliction of any penalty, whether by degradation or banishment from court. [A leniency so singular and misplaced is accounted for by a sentence which is found in the Septuagint version: kai ouk elupeese to pneuma Amnoon tou huiou autou hoti eegapa auton, hoti proototokos autou een, but he did not vex the mind of Amnon his son, because he loved him, because he was his firstborn son. (See also Josephus, 'Antiquities,' b. 7:, ch. 8:, sec. 2, where the same clause occurs, whence it may be referred that both drew it from the same source, the ancient Hebrew text of this book).]