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Verse 2 Samuel 13:23. _ABSALOM HAD SHEEP-SHEARERS_] These were times
in which feasts were made, to which the neighbours and relatives of
the family were invited....
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Sheepshearing was always a time of feasting (marginal references).
Baal-hazor is not known....
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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
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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...
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Absalom's vengeance
23. _Absalom had sheepshearers_ Sheepshearing was and still is an
occasion of festivity. Cp. 1 Samuel 25:7 ff.
_Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim_ Possibly _Tell Asur_, five mil...
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_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...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TWO FULL YEARS, THAT ABSALOM HAD
SHEEPSHEARERS IN BAALHAZOR, WHICH IS BESIDE EPHRAIM: AND ABSALOM
INVITED ALL THE KING'S SONS._
Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, wh...
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EPHRAIM] an unknown town....
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THE CRIME OF AMNON, AND ABSALOM'S VENGEANCE
This narrative and the history of Absalom's rebellion is omitted in
Chronicles....
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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...
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ABSALOM HAD SHEEPSHEARERS. — Absalom had now silently nourished his
revenge for “two full years.” No doubt he chose also to give full
opportunity for his father to punish Amnon’s iniquity if he would;...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ לִ שְׁנָתַ֣יִם יָמִ֔ים וַ
יִּהְי֤ו
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and (k) Absalom
invited all the king's sons.
(k) That is, to a banquet, thinking by i...
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Two. Hebrew, "full years." He waited so long, that he might put his
murderous designs in execution with less suspicion. (Haydock) ---
Sheep. It was esteemed the best husbandry, "to have fine flocks;...
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(22) And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad:
for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. (23)
And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had
she...
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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...
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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER TWO FULL YEARS,.... Two complete years after
the rape was committed; so long Absalom kept it in his mind, and was
contriving how to avenge it; he let it alone so long, that i...
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_After two full years_ This circumstance of time is noted, as an
aggravation of Absalom's malice, which was so implacable; and as an
act of policy, that both Amnon and David might more securely comply...
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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...
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And it came to pass after two full years, during all of which time
Absalom carried his grudge toward Amnon in his heart, THAT ABSALOM HAD
SHEEP-SHEARERS IN BAAL-HAZOR, WHICH IS BESIDE EPHRAIM, some mi...
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Absalom's Revenge...
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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...
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21-29 Observe the aggravations of Absalom's sin: he would have Ammon
slain, when least fit to go out of the world. He engaged his servants
in the guilt. Those servants are ill-taught who obey wicked m...
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AFTER TWO FULL YEARS: this circumstance of time is noted, partly as an
aggravation of Absalom's malice, which was so inveterate and
implacable; and partly as an act of Absalom's policy, that both Amno...
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2 Samuel 13:23 full H3117 years H8141 Absalom H53 sheepshearers H1494
(H8802) Hazor H1178 Ephraim H669 Absalom H53 i
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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2 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 2 SAMUEL 13:23 As seen in 1 Samuel 25:1,
sheepshearing was a time of feasting. Absalom invited David to the
festivities, probably guessing that he would decline, in order to mask
his...
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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
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 1:19; 1 Kings 1:25; 1 Kings 1:9; 1 Samuel 25:2; 1 Samuel 25:36
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Two years — This circumstance of time is noted, as an aggravation of
Absalom's malice, which was so implacable: and as an act of policy,
that both Amnon and David might more securely comply with his d...