2 Samuël 13:16

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Maar zij zeide tot hem: Neen broeder; want mij weg te zenden zou nog groter kwaad zijn dan het andere dat gij mij gedaan hebt. Maar hij wilde niet naar haar horen,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Maar zij sprak tot hem: Daar is geen reden voor, dit kwaad is nog groter dan het andere, hetwelk gij aan mij gedaan hebt, dat gij mij uitstoot. Doch hij hoorde naar hare stem niet,

Staten Vertaling
Toen zeide zij tot hem: Er zijn geen oorzaken om mij uit te drijven; dit kwaad zou groter zijn dan het andere, dat gij bij mij gedaan hebt; maar hij wilde naar haar niet horen.

Bible Verse Review
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said unto him, [there is] no cause,.... For such treatment as this:

this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst unto me; not that this was a greater sin, but it was a greater evil or injury to her, that being done secretly, this openly; being turned out in that open manner, it might look as if she was the aggressor, and had drawn her brother into this sin, or however had consented to it; had it been kept a secret, she would not have been exposed to public shame and disgrace, and she might have been disposed of in marriage to another; it would not have been known to the grief of her father, to the revenge of Absalom, and to the dishonour of religion; besides, the sin of Amnon might have been more easily excused, if any excuse could be made for it, as that it arose from the force of lust, and a strong impure affection, but this from barbarity and inhumanity:

but he would not hearken unto her; but insisted upon her immediate departure.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sense of the passage probably is, “And she spake with him on account of this great wrong in sending me away, greater than the other wrong which thou hast done me (said she), but he hearkened not unto her.” The Hebrew text is probably corrupt, and the writer blends Tamar’s words with his own narrative.