2 Samuel 13:22

22 Absalom ne parla ni en bien ni en mal avec Amnon; mais il le prit en haine, parce qu'il avait déshonoré Tamar, sa soeur.

2 Samuel 13:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad,
&c.] That is, said nothing at all to him about the rape of his sister; not that he was sulky with him, and would not converse with him at all; for then Amnon would have mistrusted that he was meditating revenge, and therefore would have been upon his guard; but on the contrary he talked freely, and in appearance friendly, on other things, the better to conceal his hatred of him, and his design to avenge the injury of his sister:

for Absalom hated Amnon;
or, "though" ^F6 he hated him, yet he behaved in this manner towards him:

because he had forced his sister Tamar:
who was so by father and mother's side, and so near and dear unto him, and therefore resented the injury done her.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (yk) , "quamvis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Pool, & Patrick.

2 Samuel 13:22 In-Context

20 Absalom, son frère, lui dit: Amnon, ton frère, a-t-il été avec toi? Maintenant, ma soeur, tais-toi, c'est ton frère; ne prends pas cette affaire trop à coeur. Et Tamar, désolée, demeura dans la maison d'Absalom, son frère.

21 Le roi David apprit toutes ces choses, et il fut très irrité.

22 Absalom ne parla ni en bien ni en mal avec Amnon; mais il le prit en haine, parce qu'il avait déshonoré Tamar, sa soeur.

23 Deux ans après, comme Absalom avait les tondeurs à Baal-Hatsor, près d'Ephraïm, il invita tous les fils du roi.

24 Absalom alla vers le roi, et dit: Voici, ton serviteur a les tondeurs; que le roi et ses serviteurs viennent chez ton serviteur.