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Poole's Outline of 2 Samuel 13: The Rape of Tamar and the Murder of Amnon



Ammon loveth his sister Tamar; ravisheth her; then hateth and driveth her away, 1-19.  Absalom entertaineth and revengeth her with Amnon’s death, 20-29.  David is grieved:  Absalom fleeth to Geshur, 30-39.

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Matthew Henry: 'The righteous God had lately told David, by Nathan the prophet, that, to chastise him for his son in the matter of Uriah, he would "raise up evil against him out of his own house," (2 Sam 12:11). And here, in the very next chapter, we find the evil beginning to rise; henceforward he was followed with one trouble after another, which made the latter part of his reign less glorious and pleasant than the former part. Thus God chastened him with the rod of men, yet assured him that his "lovingkindness he would not utterly take away." Adultery and murder were David's sins, and those sins among his children (Amnon defiling his sister Tamar, and Absalom murderin…

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