Tamar put ashes upon her head To signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was, concurring circumstances easily discovered. And laid her hand on her head In token of shame and sorrow, as if she were unable to show her face. And went on crying To manifest her abhorrence of the fact, and that it was not done by her consent.
LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD - To hold on the ashes (see the marginal references). WENT ON CRYING - i. e. “went away, crying out as she went.”...
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...
LAID HER HAND. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, put for "grieved"....
_And Tamar put ashes_, &c. The ashes and the torn garments (1 Samuel 4:12; Esther 4:1), and the hands clasped above the head (Jeremiah 2:37), were all marks of grief and shame. _went on crying_ Went a...
_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...
_AND TAMAR PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS THAT WAS ON HER, AND LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, AND WENT ON CRYING._ Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of dive...
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...
WENT ON CRYING. — Literally, _went going and cried; i.e.,_ as she went away she cried aloud. Tamar put on every external mark of the deep grief within; and this was not only fitting in itself, but was...
וַ תִּקַּ֨ח תָּמָ֥ר אֵ֨פֶר֙ עַל ־רֹאשָׁ֔הּ וּ
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...
_Head, as if to hide her face, Ezechiel xxvii. 30., and Jeremias ii. 37. So Mezentius: "Canitiem immundo deformat pulvere et ambas_ Ad C\'9clum tendit palmas."----- (Virgil, \'c6neid x.) See Homer, I...
(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 TAMAR PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD,.... In token of sorrow and distress; see Joshua 7:6; AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLOURS THAT [WAS] ON HER; signifying that her virginity was rent from her in a fo...
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. Ver. 19. _And Tamar put ashes on her head._] Most grievou...
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 Tamar, as a sign of her great grief over the shame laid upon her, PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT OF DIVERS COLORS THAT WAS ON HER, AND LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, as a token of the fac...
AMNON SPURNS TAMAR...
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...
PUT ASHES ON HER HEAD, AND RENT HER GARMENT; to signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was concurring circumstances did easily discover. LAID HER HAND ON HER HEAD, i...
2 Samuel 13:19 Tamar H8559 put H3947 (H8799) ashes H665 head H7218 tore H7167 (H8804) robe H3801 colors
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 13:19 Putting ASHES (or dirt) on one’s head and tearing one’s clothes were expressions of grief or humiliation. ⇐
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 1:2; Jeremiah 2:37; Job 2:12; Job 42:6; Joshua 7:6...
Put ashes — To signify her grief for some calamity which had befallen her, and what that was, concurring circumstances easily discovered. Head — In token of grief and shame, as if she were unable and...