2 Samuel 13:12
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What does 2 Samuel 13:12 mean?
And she answered him, nay, my brother
Which carried in it a reason sufficient for her denial, that he
was her brother, and she his sister, and therefore should not
offer such an indignity to her:
do not force me;
which was another forbidding expression, signifying she would
never freely yield to his will; and to force her, to defile her
against her will, to commit a rape upon her, would be very
criminal indeed:
for no such thing ought to be done in Israel;
among God's professing people, who were better taught and
instructed; and to give into such impure practices would bring a
dishonour upon them, and upon the religion they professed; she
urges the honour of religion, and the reputation of Israel, and
the glory of the God of Israel:
do not thou this folly:
as all sin is, especially such an impure and indecent action as
this.
