撒母耳记下 13:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

至於我，我到哪裡除去我的恥辱呢？至於你，你在以色列中也會成了一個愚妄的人。現在請你去對王說，他必不會禁止我歸你的。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 玷 辱 了 我 ， 我 何 以 掩 盖 我 的 羞 耻 呢 ？ 你 在 以 色 列 中 也 成 了 愚 妄 人 。 你 可 以 求 王 ， 他 必 不 禁 止 我 归 你 。

Contextual Overview

¹ David had a son named Absalom and a son named Amnon. Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and Amnon loved her. ² Tamar was a virgin. Amnon made himself sick just thinking about her, because he could not find any chance to be alone with her. ³ Amnon had a friend named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother. Jonadab was a very clever man. ⁴ He asked Amnon, "Son of the king, why do you look so sad day after day? Tell me what's wrong!" Amnon told him, "I love Tamar, the sister of my half-brother Absalom." ⁵ Jonadab said to Amnon, "Go to bed and act as if you are sick. Then your father will come to see you. Tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come in and give me food to eat. Let her make the food in front of me so I can watch and eat it from her hand.'" ⁶ So Amnon went to bed and acted sick. When King David came in to see him, Amnon said to him, "Please let my sister Tamar come in. Let her make two of her special cakes for me while I watch. Then I will eat them from her hands." ⁷ David sent for Tamar in the palace, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and make some food for him." ⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, and he was in bed. Tamar took some dough and pressed it together with her hands. She made some special cakes while Amnon watched. Then she baked them. ⁹ Next she took the pan and served him, but he refused to eat. He said to his servants, "All of you, leave me alone!" So they all left him alone. ¹⁰ Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom so I may eat from your hand." Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now therefore: Genesis 19:8, Judges 19:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:4 - General Genesis 34:7 - wrought Deuteronomy 22:21 - she hath wrought Joshua 7:15 - wrought Judges 20:6 - folly in Israel 2 Samuel 3:33 - as a fool dieth 1 Chronicles 21:8 - I have done Job 2:10 - as one Zechariah 9:11 - As

Cross-References

Genesis 6:11
People on earth did what God said was evil, and violence was everywhere.

Genesis 10:9
He was a great hunter before the Lord , which is why people say someone is "like Nimrod, a great hunter before the Lord ."

Genesis 13:4
and where he had built an altar. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 13:6
Abram and Lot had so many animals that the land could not support both of them together,

Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, because we are brothers.

Genesis 13:9
We should separate. The whole land is there in front of you. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose to move east and live in the Jordan Valley. In this way Abram and Lot separated.

Genesis 15:16
After your great-great-grandchildren are born, your people will come to this land again. It will take that long, because I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior."

Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "I have heard many complaints against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.

Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's oldest son, did what the Lord said was evil, so the Lord killed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go?.... She desires him to consider hey reputation, which would be lost; was she to go into a corner, into a place the most private and retired, yet she would blush at the thought of the crime committed; and still less able would she be to lift up her face in any public company; nor could she ever expect to be admitted into the matrimonial state; in short, her character would be entirely ruined:

and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel; as the vilest and basest and most abandoned in the nation; who ought of all men to be most careful of his reputation, being a prince in Israel, and heir apparent to the throne:

now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king: to give me to thee in marriage:

for he will not withhold me from thee; this she said, either as ignorant of the law, which forbids such marriages, or as supposing the king had a power to dispense with it, and, rather than he should die for love, would; though she seems to say this, and anything that occurred to her mind, to put him off of his wicked design for the present, holding then she should be delivered from him; besides, she was not his sister by the mother's side, and, as the Jews say, was born of a captive woman before she was proselyted and married to David, and so was free for Amnon z; and others say a she was the daughter of Maacah by a former husband, and not by David.

z Maimon. Hilchot Melacim, c. 8. sect. 8. Kimchi in 2 Sam. xiii. 1. a R. Moses Kotzensis, pr. affirm. 122.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My shame - Better, “my reproach.” Compare Genesis 30:23; Gen 34:14; 1 Samuel 11:2.

Speak unto the king ... - It cannot be inferred with certainty from this that marriages were usual among half brothers and sisters in the time of David. The Levitical law forbade them (marginal reference), and Tamar may have merely wished to temporize. On the other hand, the debasing and unhumanizing institution of the harem, itself contrary to the law of Moses Deuteronomy 17:17, may well have led to other deviations from its precepts, and the precedent of Abraham Genesis 20:12 may have seemed to give some sanction to this particular breach of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 13:13. Speak unto the king — So it appears that she thought that the king, her father, would give her to him as wife. This is another strong mark of indelicacy in those simple but barbarous times. There might have been some excuse for such connections under the patriarchal age, but there was none now. But perhaps she said this only to divert him from his iniquitous purpose, that she might get out of his hands.