2 Samuel 13
1 and to be after so and to/for Absalom son: child David sister beautiful and name her Tamar and to love: lover her Amnon son: child David
David's son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar, and another of David's sons, Amnon, fell in love with her.
2 and be distressed to/for Amnon to/for be weak: ill in/on/with for the sake of Tamar sister his for virgin he/she/it and to wonder in/on/with eye: appearance Amnon to/for to make: do to/for her anything
Amnon became so infatuated with his sister Tamar that he felt sick. She was a virgin, and Amnon saw it was impossible for him to have her.
3 and to/for Amnon neighbor and name his Jonadab son: child Shimeah brother: male-sibling David and Jonadab man wise much
However, Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, and he was the son of David's brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very cunning man.
4 and to say to/for him why? you(m. s.) thus poor son: child [the] king in/on/with morning in/on/with morning not to tell to/for me and to say to/for him Amnon [obj] Tamar sister Absalom brother: male-sibling my I to love: lover
He asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king's son, so down every morning? Why don't you tell me what's wrong?” “I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister,” Amnon replied.
5 and to say to/for him Jonadab to lie down: lay down upon bed your and be weak: ill and to come (in): come father your to/for to see: see you and to say to(wards) him to come (in): come please Tamar sister my and to eat me food: bread and to make to/for eye: seeing my [obj] [the] food because which to see: see and to eat from hand her
“Lie down on your bed and pretend you're sick,” Jonadab told him. “When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please have my sister Tamar come and give me some food to eat. She can make it as I watch and she can hand it to me.’”
6 and to lie down: lay down Amnon and be weak: ill and to come (in): come [the] king to/for to see: see him and to say Amnon to(wards) [the] king to come (in): come please Tamar sister my and to bake to/for eye: seeing my two cake and to eat from hand her
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please have my sister Tamar come and make a couple of pancakes as I watch, and she can hand them to me to eat.”
7 and to send: depart David to(wards) Tamar [the] house: home [to] to/for to say to go: went please house: home Amnon brother: male-sibling your and to make to/for him [the] food
Then David sent a message to Tamar at the palace: “Please be so kind as to go to the house of your brother Amnon and make him some food.”
8 and to go: went Tamar house: home Amnon brother: male-sibling her and he/she/it to lie down: lay down and to take: take [obj] [the] dough (and to knead *Qk) and to bake to/for eye: seeing his and to boil [obj] [the] cake
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon to where he was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, and cooked the pancakes as he watched.
9 and to take: take [obj] [the] pan and to pour: set down to/for face: before his and to refuse to/for to eat and to say Amnon to come out: send all man from upon me and to come out: come all man from upon him
Then she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. “Everybody leave me!” Amnon shouted. Everyone left.
10 and to say Amnon to(wards) Tamar to come (in): bring [the] food [the] chamber and to eat from hand your and to take: take Tamar [obj] [the] cake which to make and to come (in): bring to/for Amnon brother: male-sibling her [the] chamber [to]
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food here into my bedroom so you can hand it to me to eat.” So Tamar took the pancakes she had made to her brother Amnon in his bedroom.
11 and to approach: bring to(wards) him to/for to eat and to strengthen: hold in/on/with her and to say to/for her to come (in): come to lie down: lay down with me sister my
But as she handed him the food, he grabbed hold of her, and said, “Come to bed with me, my sister!”
12 and to say to/for him not brother: male-sibling my not to afflict me for not to make: do so in/on/with Israel not to make: do [obj] [the] folly [the] this
“No, you're my brother!” she exclaimed. “Don't rape me! That's not what we do in Israel! Don't do something so shameful!
13 and I where? to go: take [obj] reproach my and you(m. s.) to be like/as one [the] foolish in/on/with Israel and now to speak: speak please to(wards) [the] king for not to withhold me from you
Stop and think about me! How could I bear such a disgrace? Think about yourself too! You'd be treated with contempt as a complete fool in Israel! Please talk with the king, for he won't stop you marrying me.”
14 and not be willing to/for to hear: hear in/on/with voice: listen her and to strengthen: strengthen from her and to afflict her and to lie down: lay down with her
But Amnon wouldn't to listen to her, and because he was stronger than she was, he raped her.
15 and to hate her Amnon hating great: large much for great: large [the] hating which to hate her from love which to love: lover her and to say to/for her Amnon to arise: rise to go: went
Then Amnon hated Tamar with immense hatred. His hatred was so strong that it was greater than the love he'd had before. “Get up! Get lost!” he told her.
16 and to say to/for him not because [the] distress: evil [the] great: large [the] this from another which to make: do with me to/for to send: depart me and not be willing to/for to hear: hear to/for her
“No! Don't do this!” she answered. “Sending me away in disgrace would be an even greater evil than what you've already done to me.” But he wouldn't listen to her.
17 and to call: call to [obj] youth his to minister him and to say to send: let go please [obj] this from upon me [the] outside [to] and to lock [the] door after her
He called for his servant and said, “Get rid of this woman and lock the door behind her!”
18 and upon her tunic long-sleeved for so to clothe daughter [the] king [the] virgin robe and to come out: send [obj] her to minister him [the] outside and to lock [the] door after her
So his servant threw her out and locked the door behind her. Tamar was wearing the long robe of a princess, which is what the king's virgin daughters wore.
19 and to take: bring Tamar ashes upon head her and tunic [the] long-sleeved which upon her to tear and to set: put hand her upon head her and to go: went to go: went and to cry out
Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her long robe. She put her hands on her head, she went away crying loudly.
20 and to say to(wards) her Absalom brother: male-sibling her Amnon brother: male-sibling your to be with you and now sister my be quiet brother: male-sibling your he/she/it not to set: consider [obj] heart your to/for word: thing [the] this and to dwell Tamar and devastated house: home Absalom brother: male-sibling her
Her brother Absalom found her and asked, “Has brother Amnon been with you? Keep quiet for the moment, my sister. He's your brother. Don't be so upset about it.” So Tamar lived as a ruined and abandoned woman in her brother Absalom's home.
21 and [the] king David to hear: hear [obj] all [the] word: thing [the] these and to be incensed to/for him much
When King David heard about it, he was very angry.
22 and not to speak: speak Absalom with Amnon to/for from bad: harmful and till pleasant for to hate Absalom [obj] Amnon upon word: because which to afflict [obj] Tamar sister his
Absalom didn't talk to Amnon at all because he hated Amnon for raping his sister Tamar.
23 and to be to/for year day and to be to shear to/for Absalom in/on/with Baal-hazor Baal-hazor which with Ephraim and to call: call to Absalom to/for all son: child [the] king
Some two years later, when his sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, Absalom invited all the king's sons to join the celebrations.
24 and to come (in): come Absalom to(wards) [the] king and to say behold please to shear to/for servant/slave your to go: went please [the] king and servant/slave his with servant/slave your
He went to the king and said, “I, your servant, have hired shearers. Would the king and his servants please join me?”
25 and to say [the] king to(wards) Absalom not son: child my not please to go: went all our and not to honor: heavy upon you and to break through in/on/with him and not be willing to/for to go: went and to bless him
“No, my son,” the king replied, “we can't all go. We would be a burden to you.” Even though Absalom went on asking, he was not willing to go, but he did give Absalom his blessing.
26 and to say Absalom and not to go: went please with us Amnon brother: male-sibling my and to say to/for him [the] king to/for what? to go: went with you
“Well then, at least let my brother Amnon join us,” Absalom responded. “Why do you want him to go?” the king asked.
27 and to break through in/on/with him Absalom and to send: let go with him [obj] Amnon and [obj] all son: child [the] king
But Absalom kept on asking, so the king sent Amnon and his other sons.
28 and to command Absalom [obj] youth his to/for to say to see: select please like/as be pleasing heart Amnon in/on/with wine and to say to(wards) you to smite [obj] Amnon and to die [obj] him not to fear not for I to command [obj] you to strengthen: strengthen and to be to/for son: warrior strength
Absalom gave orders to his men, saying, “Pay attention! When Amnon is feeling happy from drinking wine and I tell you, ‘Attack Amnon!’ then kill him. Don't be afraid. I myself am giving you this order. Be strong and be brave.”
29 and to make: do youth Absalom to/for Amnon like/as as which to command Absalom and to arise: rise all son: child [the] king and to ride man: anyone upon mule his and to flee
So Absalom's men did what Absalom had ordered and killed Amnon. Then all the rest of the king's sons jumped up, got on their mules, and ran away.
30 and to be they(masc.) in/on/with way: journey and [the] tidings to come (in): come to(wards) David to/for to say to smite Absalom [obj] all son: child [the] king and not to remain from them one
While they were on their way back, David received a message, “Absalom has killed all the king's sons—there's not a single one left!”
31 and to arise: rise [the] king and to tear [obj] garment his and to lie down: lay down land: soil [to] and all servant/slave his to stand to tear garment
The king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. All his officials stood beside him with their clothes torn.
32 and to answer Jonadab son: child Shimeah brother: male-sibling David and to say not to say lord my [obj] all [the] youth son: child [the] king to die for Amnon to/for alone him to die for upon lip: word Absalom to be fate from day to afflict he [obj] Tamar sister his
But Jonadab, son of David's brother Shimeah, told them: “Your Majesty must not think they have killed all the king's sons—only Amnon is dead. Absalom has been planning ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.
33 and now not to set: consider lord my [the] king to(wards) heart his word: thing to/for to say all son: child [the] king to die for (if: except *QK) Amnon to/for alone him to die
So, Your Majesty, please don't believe the report that all the king's sons are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”
34 and to flee Absalom and to lift: look [the] youth [the] to watch [obj] (eye his *QK) and to see: see and behold people many to go: come from way: road after him (in/on/with descent and to come (in): come [the] to watch and to tell to/for king and to say human to see: see to go down from way: direction Horonaim *X) from side [the] mountain: mount
In the meantime, Absalom had run away. When the watchman in Jerusalem looked out, he saw a large crowd coming along the road west of him, down the side of the hill.
35 and to say Jonadab to(wards) [the] king behold son: child [the] king to come (in): come like/as word: speaking servant/slave your so to be
Jonadab told the king, “Can you see? The king's sons are arriving! It's exactly as your servant said.”
36 and to be like/as to end: finish he to/for to speak: speak and behold son: child [the] king to come (in): come and to lift: loud voice their and to weep and also [the] king and all servant/slave his to weep weeping great: large much
As he finished speaking, the king's sons came in, crying and wailing. Then the king and all his officials also cried loudly.
37 and Absalom to flee and to go: went to(wards) Talmai son: child (Ammihud *QK) king Geshur and to mourn upon son: child his all [the] day: daily
Absalom ran away to Talmai, son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. Every day David mourned for his son Amnon.
38 and Absalom to flee and to go: went Geshur and to be there three year
After Absalom had run away to Geshur, he remained there for three years.
39 and to end: decides David [the] king to/for to come out: come to(wards) Absalom for to be sorry: comfort upon Amnon for to die
King David longed to go and see Absalom, for he had finished grieving over the death of Amnon.
