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4 Regum 13:13

Et ego quo ibo in opprobrio meo? Et tu eris quasi unus de insipientibus in Israel; quin potius loquere ad regem, et non negabit me tibi".

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Deception;   Lasciviousness;   Rape;   Seduction;   Tamar;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Amnon;   Fool;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   David;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Family Life and Relations;   Incest;   Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tamar;   Wise, Wisdom;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amnon;   Rape;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amnon ;   Tamar ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Absalom;   Amnon;   David;   Fool;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'non;   Ta'mar;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fool;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Relationships, Family;   Samuel, Books of;   Sarah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Absalom;   Blood-Relationship;   Brother;   Incest;   Marriage;   Tamar;  

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Dixitque Samuel ad Saul : Stulte egisti, nec custodisti mandata Domini Dei tui, qu prcepit tibi. Quod si non fecisses, jam nunc prparasset Dominus regnum tuum super Isral in sempiternum,
Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ego enim ferre non potero opprobrium meum, et tu eris quasi unus de insipientibus in Isral: quin potius loquere ad regem, et non negabit me tibi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now therefore: Genesis 19:8, Judges 19:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:4 - General Genesis 34:7 - wrought Deuteronomy 22:21 - she hath wrought Joshua 7:15 - wrought Judges 20:6 - folly in Israel 2 Samuel 3:33 - as a fool dieth 1 Chronicles 21:8 - I have done Job 2:10 - as one Zechariah 9:11 - As

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go?.... She desires him to consider hey reputation, which would be lost; was she to go into a corner, into a place the most private and retired, yet she would blush at the thought of the crime committed; and still less able would she be to lift up her face in any public company; nor could she ever expect to be admitted into the matrimonial state; in short, her character would be entirely ruined:

and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel; as the vilest and basest and most abandoned in the nation; who ought of all men to be most careful of his reputation, being a prince in Israel, and heir apparent to the throne:

now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king: to give me to thee in marriage:

for he will not withhold me from thee; this she said, either as ignorant of the law, which forbids such marriages, or as supposing the king had a power to dispense with it, and, rather than he should die for love, would; though she seems to say this, and anything that occurred to her mind, to put him off of his wicked design for the present, holding then she should be delivered from him; besides, she was not his sister by the mother's side, and, as the Jews say, was born of a captive woman before she was proselyted and married to David, and so was free for Amnon z; and others say a she was the daughter of Maacah by a former husband, and not by David.

z Maimon. Hilchot Melacim, c. 8. sect. 8. Kimchi in 2 Sam. xiii. 1. a R. Moses Kotzensis, pr. affirm. 122.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My shame - Better, “my reproach.” Compare Genesis 30:23; Gen 34:14; 1 Samuel 11:2.

Speak unto the king ... - It cannot be inferred with certainty from this that marriages were usual among half brothers and sisters in the time of David. The Levitical law forbade them (marginal reference), and Tamar may have merely wished to temporize. On the other hand, the debasing and unhumanizing institution of the harem, itself contrary to the law of Moses Deuteronomy 17:17, may well have led to other deviations from its precepts, and the precedent of Abraham Genesis 20:12 may have seemed to give some sanction to this particular breach of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 13:13. Speak unto the king — So it appears that she thought that the king, her father, would give her to him as wife. This is another strong mark of indelicacy in those simple but barbarous times. There might have been some excuse for such connections under the patriarchal age, but there was none now. But perhaps she said this only to divert him from his iniquitous purpose, that she might get out of his hands.


 
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