What does 2 Samuel 13:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not forced me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly."
Verse 2 Samuel 13:12. _NAY, MY BROTHER_] There is something exceedingly tender and persuasive in this speech of Tamar; but Amnon was a mere brute, and it was all lost on him....
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 1...
3. FURTHER CHASTISEMENT: AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Amnon's wicked desire (2 Samuel 13:1)_ 2. The incest (2 Samuel 13:6) 3. His hatred (2 Samuel 13:15) 4. Amnon murdered (2 Samuel...
2 SAMUEL 13. AMNON, TAMAR, AND ABSALOM (J). 2 SAMUEL 13:1. Amnon, David's eldest son, forces his half-sister, Tamar, the full sister of Absalom. He might have married her (2 Samuel 3:5 *) but did no...
FORCE. humble....
_no such thing ought to be done in Israel_ Israel was a holy nation, sanctified by the peculiar presence of Jehovah among them; and therefore all acts of unchastity were an offence against the true ch...
SHE ANSWERED HIM, NAY, MY BROTHER— Amnon having mentioned his criminal passion to Tamar, she represents to him in the most lively manner the horror of his crime; that it was a violation of the laws, t...
4. Amnon's Death, 2 Samuel 13:1-39. _Amnon's Sin With Tamar._ 2 Samuel 13:1-14 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name _was_ Tamar; and Amnon the...
_AND SHE ANSWERED HIM, NAY, MY BROTHER, DO NOT FORCE ME; FOR NO SUCH THING OUGHT TO BE DONE IN ISRAEL: DO NOT THOU THIS FOLLY._ Do not force me. The remonstrances and arguments of Tamar were so affec...
13:12 infamy. (a-24) As 'folly,' 1 Samuel 25:25 ....
THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles....
DAVID, THE GREAT KING OF ISRAEL 2 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 13 AMNON AND TAMAR V1 David had a son called Absalom and another son called Amnon. Absalom had a beautiful sister called Tamar. Amn...
DO NOT THOU THIS FOLLY. — Tamar, now left alone in the power of her half-brother, endeavours to escape by reasoning. She first speaks of the sinfulness in Israel of that which was allowed among surrou...
וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר לֹ֗ו אַל ־אָחִי֙ אַל ־תְּעַנֵּ֔נִי כִּ֛י לֹא ־יֵֽעָשֶׂ֥ה כֵ֖ן בְּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַֽל...
CHAPTER XVII. _ ABSALOM AND AMNON._ 2 Samuel 13:1. LIVING sorrow, says the proverb, is worse than a dead. The dead sorrow had been very grievous to David; what the living sorrow, of which this chap...
SIN IN DAVID'S HOUSEHOLD 2 Samuel 13:1 The law of Moses clearly forbade the union which Amnon sought, Leviticus 18:11. It was an infamous passion, and the suggestion of Jonadab, if it was any reflec...
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. We are not told that he disciplined Amnon. How cou...
_Folly, or impiety, so directly contrary to the law, Leviticus xviii. 6. and 9. and 11. (Haydock)_...
(4) And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. (5) And Jonadab said unto...
In the sketch proposed of these books of scripture there is of course no pretension to notice every point of interest they contain, but only a general comprehensive view, as far as the Lord enables me...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11, 12, AND 13. The history of David and the wife of Uriah follows. David is no longer acting by faith in God's service. When the time comes at which kings go...
AND SHE ANSWERED HIM, NAY, MY BROTHER,.... Which carried in it a reason sufficient for her denial, that he was her brother, and she his sister, and therefore should not offer such an indignity to her:...
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. Ver. 12. _Do not force me._] Heb., Do not humble me; _sc., _ by bereaving...
_Nay, my brother_ Whom nature both teaches to abhor such thoughts, and obliges to defend me from such an injury, with thy utmost hazard, if another should attempt it. _Do not force me_ Thou oughtest t...
1 Amnon louing Tamar, by Ionadabs counsell faining himselfe sicke, rauisheth her. 15 Hee hateth her, and shamefully turneth her away. 19 Absalom entertaineth her, and concealeth his purpose. 23 At...
Amnon's Crime...
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 family His son Ammon was so attracted by the beauty o...
FORCE ME: _ Heb._ humble me NO SUCH THING OUGHT TO BE DONE: _ Heb._ it ought not so to be done...
1-20 From henceforward David was followed with one trouble after another. Adultery and murder were David's sins, the like sins among his children were the beginnings of his punishment: he was too indu...
NAY, MY BROTHER, whom nature both teacheth to abhor such thoughts, and obligeth to defend me from such a mischief with thy utmost hazard if another should attempt it. DO NOT FORCE ME: thou shouldst ab...
2 Samuel 13:12 answered H559 (H8799) brother H251 force H6031 (H8762) should H3651 done H6213 (H8735) Israel H3478 Do H6213 (H8799) thing H5039 force me - Heb. humble me, Genesis 34:2; Deuteronomy 22...
CONTENTS: Ammon's crime. Absalom's vengeance for Tamar's wrong. CHARACTERS: David, Absalom, Ammon, Tamar, Jonadab. CONCLUSION: Fleshly lusts are their own punishment and not only war against the sou...
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 Samuel 13:13. _The king will not withhold me from thee._ In...
_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 yet have hoped to retain the attention and confidence...
2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:1 Nathan had warned David of “evil... out of your own house” (2 Samuel 12:11) as a result of his sin with Bathsheba. Chapters 2 Samuel 13:1 show how this prophecy comes tr...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 2 Samuel 13:1. “ABSALOM” and “TAMAR” were the children of Maacha, and “AMNON” was David’s eldest son by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess (see chap 2 Samuel 3:2). 2 Samuel 13:2....
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 sad event which formed the second stage in David's punishment c...
So we find that the problems begin very soon thereafter. David had a son by the name of Amnon, and Amnon was talking with a man who was called his friend (2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 13:3), Yet, I would c...
Deuteronomy 22:29; Genesis 34:2; Genesis 34:7; Judges 19:23; Judges 20:6; Leviticus 18:11; Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 20:17; Proverbs 5:22;...
Brother — Whom nature both teaches to abhor such thoughts and obliges to defend me from such a mischief with thy utmost hazard, if another should attempt it. Force — Thou shouldst abhor it, if I were...