サムエル記Ⅱ 13:8-14 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:1-22

The firstfruits of iniquity. The facts are: 1 . Amnon entertains an improper affection for his half-sister Tamar, and meditates evil. 2 . Making known his secret passion to Jonadab, he is prompted to a device for securing a personal interview with her. 3 . The king, visiting Amnon in his pretended sickness, kindly arranges that Tamar should wait upon him with special focal in his chamber. 4 . Seizing an opportunity in the absence of attendants, he accomplishes his purpose... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:1-33

( JERUSALEM .) The crime of Amnon. The chastisements which David experienced came upon him chiefly through his family. The misconduct of his sons was largely due to his own "in the matter of Uriah," and his defective discipline (lSa 2 Samuel 3:13 ; 1 Kings 1:6 ) in connection with polygamy ( 2 Samuel 3:1-5 ). "This institution is the absolutely irrepressible source of numberless evils of this description. It ever furnishes a ready stimulus to unbounded sensual desire in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:9

She took a pan. Many of the words are difficult because, being the names of ordinary domestic articles, they do not occur in literature. A man may be a good French scholar, and yet find it difficult in France to ask for things in common use. Here the Syriac is probably right in understanding, not a pan, but the delicacy Tamar had been cooking. In 2 Samuel 13:8 the word rendered "flour" is certainly "dough," and is so rendered in the Revised Version. The cakes were a kind of pancake, fitted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:12

Do not force me; literally, do not humble me. It is to be regretted that the word should be changed, as it bears testimony to the nobleness of the Hebrew women, who regarded their chastity as their crown of honour. The word folly is used in the sense of unchastity in Genesis 34:7 and elsewhere, and it is noteworthy that the Jews thus connected crime with stupidity. Vain, that is, empty persons were the criminal part of the population ( 9:4 ), and to call a man "a fool" was to attribute... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:12

Things that ought not to be done in Israel. The plea of Tamar, "no such thing ought to be done in Israel," is interesting, as showing that the sentiment was prevalent amongst the Israelites, morally imperfect as they were, that they were not to be as the nations around them; that practices prevalent elsewhere were altogether out of keeping with their position and calling "It may be so elsewhere; but it must not be so in Israel." A similar sentiment as to what is statable and becoming is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:13

Fools in Israel. Sad as was the case of the injured Tamar, that of her wicked brother was sadder still. She was outraged, but innocent; he was "as one of the fools in Israel." I. WICKED MEN ARE " FOOLS ." The term is often used in Holy Scripture as synonymous with "godless," "lawless," "sinful;" especially in the Book of Proverbs, where piety and holiness are designated "wisdom." The folly of sinners appears in that: 1 . Their life is opposed to right reason. To wisdom,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 13:6-9

Make me cakes ... a pan - The words here used occur nowhere else, and the etymology is doubtful. Some particular kind of cake or pudding is meant 2 Samuel 13:8, called a לביבה lābı̂ybâh; according to some, it was, from its etymology, shaped like a heart.2 Samuel 13:9The dish into which she poured the לביבה lābı̂ybâh was doubtless borne to him by one of the servants into the chamber where he lay, and from which, the doors being open, he could see the outer room where Tamar prepared the meat. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 13:12

Tamar’s words are a verbal quotation from Genesis 34:7. The natural inference is that Tamar knew the passage in Genesis, and wished to profit by the warning that it contained. (Compare also 2 Samuel 13:13.) read more

Albert Barnes

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

My shame - Better, “my reproach.” Compare Genesis 30:23; Gen 34:14; 1 Samuel 11:2.Speak unto the king ... - It cannot be inferred with certainty from this that marriages were usual among half brothers and sisters in the time of David. The Levitical law forbade them (marginal reference), and Tamar may have merely wished to temporize. On the other hand, the debasing and unhumanizing institution of the harem, itself contrary to the law of Moses Deuteronomy 17:17, may well have led to other... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 13:10

2 Samuel 13:10. Amnon said, Bring the meat into the chamber It is probable that when Tamar first came, Amnon had received her in an outward room, but that, pretending now to be fatigued, he retired into his chamber, desiring her to go along with him, that he might put his design upon her in execution without being interrupted; it being an inner chamber probably, remote from any other room. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:1-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:12

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 13:6-9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 13:12

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 13:10

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