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Verse 2 Samuel 13:32. _AND JONADAB - SAID - AMNON ONLY IS DEAD_] This
was a very bad man, and here speaks coolly of a most bloody tragedy,
which himself had contrived....
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The history supplies another (compare 2 Samuel 13:3) instance of
Jonadab’s subtlety and sagacity. He at once gave the true
explanation of the catastrophe at Baal-hazor, in spite of the false
rumour.
B...
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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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_Let not my lord suppose_, &c. A practical illustration of the
sagacity for which Jonadab was famous (2 Samuel 13:3). He at once
rejects the exaggerations of rumour, and predicts accurately what had
r...
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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...
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THIS HATH BEEN DETERMINED, &C.— What unparalleled impudence and
effrontery was this! to speak with such calmness and unconcern of a
horrid villany, which he himself had contrived, and of which he now...
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_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...
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_THEN THE KING AROSE, AND TARE HIS GARMENTS, AND LAY ON THE EARTH; AND
ALL HIS SERVANTS STOOD BY WITH THEIR CLOTHES RENT._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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JONADAB. — The same subtle counsellor who had led Amnon into his
sin, now at once divined how the case really stood and reassured the
king.
BY THE APPOINTMENT OF ABSALOM THIS HATH BEEN DETERMINED. —...
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וַ יַּ֡עַן יֹונָדָ֣ב ׀ בֶּן
־שִׁמְעָ֨ה אֲחִֽי...
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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 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...
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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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_Mouth. Chaldean [and] Syriac, "heart." Aquila, "because Absalom was
in wrath against him." He had resolved upon his destruction. (Calmet)
--- Perhaps he had expressed his intention to some of the cou...
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(32) And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and
said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men
the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment...
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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 JONADAB THE SON OF SHIMEAH, DAVID'S BROTHER,.... The same that
advised Amnon to feign himself sick, to get Tamar sent to him, that he
might enjoy her, 2 Samuel 13:3;
ANSWERED AND SAID; said in an...
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And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said,
Let not my lord suppose [that] they have slain all the young men the
king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of...
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_Then the king arose_ He was thrown by this news, as we may well
imagine, into the utmost consternation, and almost driven even to
despair. He tore his clothes, and laid himself down upon the earth,
l...
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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 Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, who had followed the
development of matters with sharp eyes, ANSWERED AND SAID, LET NOT MY
LORD SUPPOSE THAT THEY HAVE SLAIN ALL THE YOUNG MEN, THE KI...
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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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APPOINTMENT:
_ Heb._ mouth
DETERMINED:
Or, settled...
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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...
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JONADAB was a man of great craft and subtlety, and one that had exact
knowledge of Amnon's fact, and of Absalom's temper. BY THE
APPOINTMENT, or, _by the command_; Heb. _mouth_, put for _command_,
NUM...
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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 hath slain all the king’s sons._
CHASTISEMENT
The fulfilment of the curse on David’s house now begun.
I. Observe the justice of God’s dealings in chastisement. A
comparison of David’s sin...
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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 Samuel 16:9; 2 Samuel 13:3; Genesis 27:41; Proverbs 24:11;...