2 Samuel 13:7

New King James Version

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

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.”

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

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 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 After this Absalom the son of David had a lovely sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. ² Amnon was so distressed over his sister Tamar that he became sick; for she was a virgin. And it was improper for Amnon to do anything to her. ³ But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother. Now Jonadab was a very crafty man. ⁴ And he said to him, "Why are you, the king's son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister." ⁵ So Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, "Please let my sister Tamar come and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand."' ⁶ Then Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sister come and make a couple of cakes for me in my sight, that I may eat from her hand." ⁷ And David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Now go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him." ⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. ⁹ And she took the pan and placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Have everyone go out from me." And they all went out from him. ¹⁰ Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon her brother in the bedroom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:1 - houses

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. [fn] And the Canaanites were then in the land.

Genesis 13:14
And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are--northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants [fn] forever.

Genesis 13:18
18 Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, [fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.

Genesis 21:25
Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized.

Genesis 26:20
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, [fn] because they quarreled with him.

Genesis 34:30
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I."

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

Nehemiah 5:9
Then I said, "What you are doing is not good. Should you not 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.