Commentary Critical and Explanatory
2 Samuel 13:16
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 hearken unto her.
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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 hearken unto her.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
The sense of the passage probably is, “And she spake with him on account of this great wrong in sending me away, greater than the other wrong which thou hast done me (said she), but he hearkened not u...
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 murd
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 not...
NO CAUSE. Hebrew "[Give] no ground for talk". EVIL. Hebrew. _ra`a `._ App-44....
There is _no cause_ The Heb. text cannot be so translated, and is certainly corrupt. The Sept. is also confused, but its original reading as indicated by the Old Latin Version gives an excellent sense...
THEN AMNON HATED HER EXCEEDINGLY— The flux and reflux of passion in a brutal breast are here finely painted. Commentators are at a loss to account for this sudden and excessive hatred; and, indeed, th...
_Absalom Kills Amnon._ 2 Samuel 13:15-29 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her _was_ greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her...
THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in Chronicles....
Amnon was adding insult to injury....
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. Am...
THERE IS NO CAUSE. — The Hebrew is elliptical and difficult; various interpretations are suggested, among which that given in the Authorised Version expresses very well the sense, although not an accu...
וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר לֹ֗ו אַל ־אֹודֹ֞ת הָ רָעָ֤ה
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 chapt...
ABSALOM EXECUTES JUDGMENT 2 Samuel 13:15 When men yield to irregular passion, they go from one extreme to the other-from wicked love to wicked hate. If women would but realize this, how often it wou...
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...
_Greater, as being more public; (Tirinus) and all would think her guilty of some horrible misdemeanor. (Haydock) --- It made the divulging of the crime in some degree necessary. (Menochius) --- Unhapp...
(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 hearken unto her. (17) Then he called his servant that m...
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 SAID UNTO HIM, [THERE IS] NO CAUSE,.... For such treatment as this: THIS EVIL IN SENDING ME AWAY [IS] GREATER THAN THE OTHER THAT THOU DIDST UNTO ME; not that this was a greater sin, but it w...
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 hearken unto her. Ver. 16. _There is no cause,_] _sc., _...
_Then Amnon hated her exceedingly_ His mind, which at first had been impelled by lust, was now agitated by remorse, which drove it to a different extreme, like the vibration of a pendulum. The horror...
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 SPURNS TAMAR...
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. The Hebrew text shows an unfinished sentence, spoken in great agitation: On ac...
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...
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 ind...
THERE IS NO CAUSE, to wit, given thee by me. THIS EVIL IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER: this she might truly say, because though the other was in itself a greater sin, yet this was an act of greater inhuman...
2 Samuel 13:16 said H559 (H8799) indeed H182 evil H7451 away H7971 (H8763) worse H1419 other H312 did...
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—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:15 THEN AMNON HATED HER. Having succeeded in seducing Tamar, Amnon’s professed love for her quickly turned to hatred. THIS WRONG... IS GREATER THAN THE OTHER. If a man sed...
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...
2 Samuel 13:16...
No cause — For me to go. Greater thou the other — This she might truly say, because though the other was in itself a greater sin, yet this was an act of greater cruelty, and a greater calamity to her...