2 Samuël 13:2

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

En Amnon leed tot ziek wordens toe om zijn zuster Tamar; want zij was maagd, en Amnon zag geen kans om haar iets te doen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En Amnon was krank van hartzeer om Tamar zijne zuster; want zij was ene maagd, en het dacht Amnon zwaar te zijn, dat hij haar iets zou doen.

Staten Vertaling
En Amnon was benauwd tot krank wordens toe, om zijner zuster Thamars wil; want zij was een maagd, zodat het in Amnons ogen zwaar was, haar iets te doen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vexed: 1 Kings 21:4, Song of Solomon 5:8, 2 Corinthians 7:10

Amnon: etc. Heb. it was marvellous, or hidden, in the eyes of Amnon

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 2:5 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Amnon was so vexed,.... Distressed, straitened, and perplexed in his mind through unruly and unbridled lusts that raged in him:

that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; as Antiochus son of Seleucus did for his mother in law Stratonice, who, to cure him of it, was delivered to him by his father s:

for she [was] a virgin; and so kept very recluse from the company of men, that he could not come at her; so Philo t, speaking of the Jewish women, and particularly virgins, says, that they were shut up in their chambers, and through modesty shun the sight of men, even those of their own house; hence they are called עלמות, from a word which signifies to hide; and Phocylides u the poet advises to the shutting of them up in like manner:

and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her; that it was difficult to have access to her, almost impossible, what he despaired of, and what, if attained to, would be wonderful and amazing; he was at his wits' end how to contrive any scheme to get at her, and obtain his desire.

s See the Universal History, vol. 3. p. 519. Ed. fol. t In Flaccum, p. 977. u Poem. admon. v. 203, 204.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 13:2. Amnon was so vexed - for she was a virgin — It has been well remarked that "the passion of love is nowhere so wasting and vexatious, as where it is unlawful. A quick sense of guilt, especially where it is enormous, as in the present instance, strikes the soul with horror; and the impossibility of an innocent gratification loads that horror with desperation: a conflict too cruel and too dreadful for human bearing." - Delaney.