Geneva Bible Notes: 2 Samuel 13

2 Samuel 13:1 ^a Tamar was Absaloms sister both by father & mother, and Amons onely by father.

2 Samuel 13:2 ^b And therefore kept in her fathers house, as virgins were accustomed.

2 Samuel 13:5 ^c Here we se that there is no enterprise so wicked, that can lacke counsel to further it.

2 Samuel 13:6 ^d Meaning, some delicate & dantie meat.

2 Samuel 13:8 ^/ Or, paste.

2 Samuel 13:9 ^f For the wicked are ashamed to do that before men, which thei are not afrayed to commit in the sight of God.

2 Samuel 13:9 ^e That is, she serued them on a dishe.

2 Samuel 13:13 ^/ Or, How shal I put away my shame.

2 Samuel 13:13 ^g As a lewde & wicked persone.

2 Samuel 13:14 ^! Amon Dauids sonne defileth his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13:16 ^/ Or, for this cause.

2 Samuel 13:17 ^/ Or, boye.

2 Samuel 13:18 ^h For the which was of diuers coulers or pieces in those dayes was had in greatest estimacion, {Gen. 37,3}, {judg. 5, 30}.

2 Samuel 13:19 ^! Tamar is comforted by her brother Absalom.

2 Samuel 13:20 ⁱ For thogh he conceiued soden vengeance in his heart, yet he dissembled it til occasion serued, and comforted his sister.

2 Samuel 13:23 ^/ Or, in the plaine of Hazor.

2 Samuel 13:23 ^k To wit, to a banket, thinking thereby to fulfil his wicked purpose.

2 Samuel 13:25 ^/ Ebr. blessed.

2 Samuel 13:26 ⁱ Pretending to the King, that Amnon was moste deare vnto him.

2 Samuel 13:28 ^m Muche is the pride of the wicked masters that in all their wicked commandements they thinke to be obeyed.

2 Samuel 13:29 ^! Absalom therefore killeth Amnon.

2 Samuel 13:31 ⁿ Lamenting, as he that felt the wrath of God vpon his house, {Chap. 12,10}

2 Samuel 13:32 ^/ Ebr. because it was put in Absaloms mouthe.

2 Samuel 13:33 ^/ Or, take it to heart.

2 Samuel 13:33 ^/ Or, but.

2 Samuel 13:34 ^/ Or, one after an other.

2 Samuel 13:35 ^o That onely Amnon is dead.

2 Samuel 13:37 ^p For Maachah his mother wa the daughter of this Talmai, {chap. 3, 3}

2 Samuel 13:39 ^/ Or, ceased.