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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:7

Tamar. A princess; the daughter of David and Maacah (of Geshur), and sister of Absalom; distinguished for her beauty, modesty, domesticity, obedience ( 2 Samuel 13:8 ), tender heartedness, piety, and misfortunes. In her we see an illustration of (what has often occurred): 1 . Purity pursued by licentious desire ( 2 Samuel 13:2 ). 2 . Simplicity beset by wily designs ( 2 Samuel 13:5 ). 3 . Kindness requited by selfish ingratitude ( 2 Samuel 13:9 , 2 Samuel 13:10 ). ... read more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:15

Anmon hated her exceedingly. Ashen had not really ever loved Tamar; his passion had been mere animal desire, which, by a well known psychological law, when gratified turned to hatred. Had he possessed any dignity of character or self-respect, he would have resisted this double wrong to one so near to him, and whom he had so terribly disgraced; but he can only remember the indignant words she had spoken—her comparison of him to "the fools in Israel," and her obstinate resistance to his... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:16

There is no cause . This is certainly not a possible translation of the Hebrew, which is probably corrupt; and though Tamar's words may have been broken and hysterical, we cannot suppose that the narrator intended to represent her sobs. The text is rendered by Philippsohn, "And she said to him respecting the evil deed, Greater is this than the other." Similarly Cahen renders it, "au sujet de ce mal." Flat as this is, no better rendering is possible; but the Vatican copy of the Septuagint has... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:18

A garment of divers colours . This was probably a long tunic with sleeves, so woven as for the colours to form patterns like those of the Scottish tartans (see on Genesis 37:3 ). The next sentence is probably a note, which has crept from the margin into the text, and which literally is, "For so king's daughters, while unmarried, wore over mantles" ( me'ils; see note on 1 Samuel 2:19 ). Both the Authorized Version and the Revised Version so render as if the coloured chetoneth and the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:19

Tamar put ashes. There was no concealment of her wrong, but, thrust out of the inner chamber into which Amnon had enticed her ( 2 Samuel 13:10 ), she cast ashes upon her head from the very fire which she had just used in cooking, and, rending her garment, hastened away with her hand on her head, and with cries of lamentation. If David had foreseen this sad sight when giving way to his passion for Bathsheba, he would have felt that sin is indeed "folly," and that its pleasure is followed by... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:20

Hath Amnon? The Hebrew has Aminon, a diminutive, which some authorities regard as expressive of contempt. More probably it is an accidental variety of spelling. Hold now thy peace. We must not suppose that Absalom did not comfort his sister, and make her conscious of his love. He was, in fact, so indignant at her treatment as to have purposed the sternest vengeance. But this he concealed from her, and counselled patience, net merely because she would have dissuaded him from a course so... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:7

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:9

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:12

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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:13

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:15

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:16

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:19

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Samuel 13:20

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