2 Samuel 13:7

Hebrew Names Version

Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare a meal for him.”

King James Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.

Lexham English Bible
So David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare food for him."

English Standard Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and prepare food for him."

New Century Version
David sent for Tamar in the palace, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and make some food for him."

New English Translation
So David sent Tamar to the house saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him."

Amplified Bible
Then David sent word to the house for Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare some food for him."

New American Standard Bible
Then David sent a messenger to the house for Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Dauid sent home to Tamar, saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house, and dresse him meate.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

Contemporary English Version
David told Tamar, "Go over to Amnon's house and fix him some food."

Complete Jewish Bible
David sent this instruction home to Tamar: "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare him some food."

Darby Translation
And David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go, I pray thee, to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

Easy-to-Read Version
David sent messengers to Tamar's house. They told her, "Go to your brother Amnon's house and make some food for him."

George Lamsa Translation
Then David sent for Tamar, and said to her, Go now to your brother Amnons house and prepare food for him.

Good News Translation
So David sent word to Tamar in the palace: "Go to Amnon's house and fix him some food."

Literal Translation
And David sent home to Tamar, saying, Please go to the house of your brother Amnon and make food for him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sent Dauid for Thamar in to the house, and sayde vnto her: Go thy waye to thy brother Ammons house, & make him a meece of meate.

American Standard Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

Bible in Basic English
Then David sent to the house for Tamar and said, Go now to your brother Amnon's house and get a meal for him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Dauid sent home to Thamar, saying: Go now to thy brother Amnos house, and dresse him meate.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'

King James Version (1611)
Then Dauid sent home to Tamar, saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house, and dresse him meat.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David sent to Themar to the house, saying, Go now to thy brother’s house, and dress him food.

English Revised Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon’s house, and dress him food.

Berean Standard Bible
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Dauid sente to the hows of Thamar, and seide, Come thou in to the hows of Amon, thi brother, and make thou seew to hym.

Young's Literal Translation
And David sendeth unto Tamar, to the house, saying, `Go, I pray thee, to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make for him food.'

Update Bible Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress meat for him.

World English Bible
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

New King James Version
And David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Now go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

New Living Translation
So David agreed and sent Tamar to Amnon's house to prepare some food for him.

New Life Bible
Then David sent home for Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and make food for him."

New Revised Standard
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So David sent unto Tamar, in the house - saying, - Come, I pray thee, to the house of Amnon thy brother, and prepare him enticing food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy brother Ammon, and make him a mess.

Revised Standard Version
Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

THE MESSAGE
David sent word to Tamar who was home at the time: "Go to the house of your brother Amnon and prepare a meal for him."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

Contextual Overview

¹ It happened after this, that Avshalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. ² Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her. ³ But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Yehonadav, the son of Shim`a, David's brother; and Yehonadav was a very subtle man. ⁴ He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Avshalom's sister. ⁵ Yehonadav said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand. ⁶ So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand. ⁷ Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house, and dress him food. ⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. She took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. ⁹ She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, Have out all men from me. They went out every man from him. ¹⁰ Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand. Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:1 - houses

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
The border of the Kana`anim was from Tzidon, as you go toward Gerar, to `Aza; as you go toward Sedom, `Amorah, Admah, and Tzevoyim, to Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
Avram passed through the land to the place of Shekhem, to the oak of Moreh. The Kana`ani was then in the land.

Genesis 13:14
The LORD said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

Genesis 13:18
Avram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hevron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

Genesis 21:25
Avraham complained to Avimelekh because of a water well, which Avimelekh's servants had violently taken away.

Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Yitzchak's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well `Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 34:30
Ya`akov said to Shim`on and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Kana`anim and the Perizzi. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."

Exodus 2:17
The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moshe stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then David sent home to Tamar,.... Who perhaps was not in the king's palace, but at her brother Absalom's house, 2 Samuel 13:20;

saying, go now to thy brother Amnon's house; who also had a separate house and equipage, being the king's son, and his eldest son:

and dress him meat; such as he may desire, and his stomach will bear.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make me cakes ... a pan - The words here used occur nowhere else, and the etymology is doubtful. Some particular kind of cake or pudding is meant 2 Samuel 13:8, called a לביבה lābı̂ybâh; according to some, it was, from its etymology, shaped like a heart.

2 Samuel 13:9

The dish into which she poured the לביבה lābı̂ybâh was doubtless borne to him by one of the servants into the chamber where he lay, and from which, the doors being open, he could see the outer room where Tamar prepared the meat.