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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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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6....
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_let the king_, &c. A clever plan for removing all suspicion from
Amnon's mind....
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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 ABSALOM CAME TO THE KING, AND SAID, BEHOLD NOW, THY SERVANT HATH
SHEEPSHEARERS; LET THE KING, I BESEECH THEE, AND HIS SERVANTS GO WITH
THY SERVANT._
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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CAME TO THE KING. — Absalom could hardly have expected the king to
accept his invitation, but by pressing him to go he effectively
disguised his real purpose, and secured David’s blessing....
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וַ יָּבֹ֤א אַבְשָׁלֹום֙ אֶל ־הַ
מֶּ֔לֶךְ וַ
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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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(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 Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath
sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with
thy servant.
Ver. 24. _Behold now thy servant hath sheepshea...
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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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Absalom's Revenge...
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And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, thy servant hath
sheep-shearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with
thy servant, The invitation had originally been made to the k...
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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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TO THE FEAST, which was usual upon those occasions. See GENESIS 38:12
1 SAMUEL 25:7,11....
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2 Samuel 13:24 Absalom H53 came H935 (H8799) king H4428 said H559
(H8799) servant H5650 sheepshearers H1494 ...
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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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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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2 Samuel 11:8; Jeremiah 41:6; Jeremiah 41:7; Psalms 12:2; Psalms 55: