2 Samuel 13:7

Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy brother Amnon, and make him a mess.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6So Amnon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king came to visit him, Amnon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister Thamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at her hand.

8And Thamar came to the house of Amnon her brother: but he was laid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 15:1He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 13:2-21

Amnon's Incest. ( b. c. 1032.) 1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtle man. 4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to… Read the whole commentary →

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