2 Samuel 13:7

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.

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 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."

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 And it came to pass, after this, that, Absolom, son of David, having a beautiful sister, whose name, was Tamar, Amnon son of David loved her. ² And it so troubled Amnon, that he made himself ill on account of Tamar his sister, for, a virgin, was she, and it was monstrous in Amnon's own eyes, to do, anything, unto her. ³ But, Amnon, had a friend, whose name, was Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother, - and, Jonadab, was a very cunning man. ⁴ So he said to him, - Why art thou looking so wretched - a king's son too - morning by morning? Wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, With Tamar, my brother Absolom's sister, am I in love. ⁵ And Jonadab said unto him: Take to thy bed, and feign thyself ill, - and, when thy father cometh in to see thee, then shalt thou say unto him - I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, that she may give me food, and let her prepare, before mine eyes, some delicacy, to the end that I may see it made , and so eat at her hand. ⁶ So Amnon took to his bed, and feigned himself ill, - and, when the king came in to see him, Amnon said unto the king - I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make ready before mine eyes a couple of cakes, that I may eat at her hand. ⁷ 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. ⁸ And Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, he having taken to his bed, - and took dough and kneaded it, and folded it before his eyes, and baked the cakes. ⁹ Then took she the pan and put them out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said - Have forth every one from me. And they went out every one from him. ¹⁰ Then said Amnon unto Tamar - Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat out of thine own hand. So Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them in to Amnon her brother, in the chamber.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:1 - houses

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And it came to pass that the boundary of the Canaanite was from Zidon, as thou enterest in towards Gerar unto Gaza, - as thou enterest in towards Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed along throughout the land, as far as the place of Shechem as far as the Teacher's Terebinth, the Canaanite being then in the land.

Genesis 13:14
And, Yahweh, said unto Abram after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up, I pray thee thine eyes and look, from the place where thou art, - northward and southward and eastward and westward;

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which thou art beholding - to thee, will I give it, and to thy seed unto times age-abiding;

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came in and dwelt among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron, - and built there an altar to Yahweh.

Genesis 21:25
But Abraham reproved Abimelech, - on account of the well of water, which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

Genesis 26:20
And the herdmen of Gerar disputed with the herdmen of Isaac saying, Ours, is thee, water! So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had stirred up a quarrel with him.

Genesis 34:30
Then said Jacob unto Simeon and unto Levi - Ye have troubled me by making me odious among them that dwell in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites, - I, having only men that may be counted, they will gather themselves, together against me and smite me, - and I shall be destroyed both I and my house.

Exodus 2:17
Then came the shepherds, and drave them away, - so Moses rose up, and succoured them, and watered their flock,

Nehemiah 5:9
Then said I, Not good, is the thing which ye are doing, - ought ye not, in the fear of God, to walk, 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.