Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Samuel 13:39
Longed to go forth - Rather, “longed after Absalom,” literally, was consumed in going forth, with a sense of disappointed hope.
Longed to go forth - Rather, “longed after Absalom,” literally, was consumed in going forth, with a sense of disappointed hope.
Verse 2 Samuel 13:39. _DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM_] We find that he had a very strong paternal affection for this young man, who appears to have had little to commend him but the beauty of...
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...
THE SOUL OF KING DAVID. The Aramaean reads "the soul _(nephesh)_ of the king". Compare the omission of _nephesh_ in Psalms 16:2....
_And_the soul of _king David_, &c. The Heb. of this verse is obscure, and has been made to bear almost opposite meanings. (1) The E. V., following the Jewish commentators, supplies _the soul_as the su...
The news brought to David. Absalom's flight 31. _tare his garments_ RENT HIS CLOTHES. The E. V. has introduced a distinction which does not exist in the Hebrew. Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 1:11. _lay on the ea...
_Absalom Flees to Talmai._ 2 Samuel 13:30-39 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of the...
_AND THE SOUL OF KING DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM: FOR HE WAS COMFORTED CONCERNING AMNON, SEEING HE WAS DEAD._ The soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom. The verb, being femini...
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. Am...
THE SOUL OF KING DAVID. — The words, “the soul of,” are not in the original, and the most opposite interpretations have been given of the rest of the sentence. The sense of the English is that of the...
וַ תְּכַל֙ דָּוִ֣ד הַ מֶּ֔לֶךְ לָ צֵ֖את
CHAPTER XVIII. _ ABSALOM BANISHED AND BROUGHT BACK_ 2 Samuel 13:38 - 2 Samuel 14:1. GESHUR, to which Absalom fled after the murder of Amnon, accompanied in all likelihood by the men who had slain hi...
ABSALOM FLEES WHILE DAVID MOURNS 2 Samuel 13:28 For two years Absalom nursed his anger. Time did not alter his resolve, though it lulled to sleep any suspicion that might have been excited if he had...
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...
(34) But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him. (35) And Jonadab said unto the...
REFLECTIONS THINK, Reader, in the perusal of the history of Amnon's gratified lust, how wretched the man that is given up for a prey to his own corrupt passions! Think also, in the sudden departure o...
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 [THE SOUL OF] KING DAVID LONGED TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM,.... In like manner it is supplied and paraphrased in the Targum, because the word rendered "longed" is feminine; though it may be used to...
And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. Ver. 39. _And the soul of king David longed to go forth._] He had many sallies...
_The soul of King David longed to go forth to Absalom_ To visit him, or to send for him. What amazing weakness was this! At first he could not find in his heart to do justice to the ravisher of his si...
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...
And the soul of King David longed to go forth unto Absalom, literally, "And held back, refrained, David, the king, from going forth to Absalom"; FOR HE WAS COMFORTED CONCERNING AMNON, SEEING HE WAS DE...
Absalom's Revenge...
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...
LONGED: Or, was consumed...
30-39 Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death, as of his sin; such false friends do they prove, who counsel us to do wickedly. Instead of loathing Absalom as a murderer, David, after a time, longed to...
TO GO FORTH UNTO ABSALOM, to wit, to visit him, or to send for him. And thus this word the _soul_ is here understood, partly from the Hebrew verb, which being of the feminine gender, agrees not with D...
2 Samuel 13:39 King H4428 David H1732 longed H3615 (H8762) go H3318 (H8800) Absalom H53 comforted H5162 ...
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...
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 12:23; Deuteronomy 28:32; Genesis 24:67; Genesis 31:30;...
Go forth — And could not he recalled, to visit him, or to send for him. What amazing weakness was this! At first he could not find in his heart, to do justice to the ravisher of his sister! And now he...