Sāmǔĕrjìxià 13:21

21 Dàwèi wáng tīngjian zhè shì , jiù shén fānù .

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 13:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 13:21

But when King David heard of all these things
Of Amnon's ravishing Tamar, and turning her out of doors in that inhuman manner he did, and of her distress upon it:

he was very wroth;
with Amnon; but we read not of any reproof he gave him, nor of any punishment inflicted on him by him. Abarbinel thinks the reason why he was not punished was because his sin was not cognizable by a court of judicature, nor was punishable by any way, or with any kind of death inflicted by the sanhedrim, as stoning, burning, &c. nor even by scourging, because there were no witnesses; but the punishment of it was cutting off, i.e. by the hand of God. The Jews say

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 a law was made on this, that virgins or unmarried persons should not be alone; for if this was done to the daughter of a king, much more might it be done to the daughter of a private man; and if to a modest person, much more to an impudent one.

F5 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 21. 1.

Sāmǔĕrjìxià 13:21 In-Context

19 Tāmǎ bǎ huī chén sǎ zaì tóu shàng , sī liè suǒ chuān de cǎi yǐ , yǐ shǒu bào tóu , yī miàn xíng zǒu , yī miàn kū hǎn .

20 Tā bāo xiōng Yēshālóng wèn tā shuō , mòfēi nǐ gēge àn nèn yǔ nǐ qīnjìn le ma . wǒ meìmei , zànqiĕ búyào zuò shēng , tā shì nǐde gēge , búyào jiāng zhè shì fàng zaì xīn shàng . Tāmǎ jiù gū gū dāndān dì zhù zaì tā bāo xiōng Yēshālóng jiā lǐ .

21 Dàwèi wáng tīngjian zhè shì , jiù shén fānù .

22 Yē Shālóng bìng bù hé tā gēge àn nèn shuō hǎo shuō dǎi . yīnwei àn nèn diànrǔ tā meìmei Tāmǎ , suǒyǐ Yēshālóng hèn è tā .

23 Guō le èr nián , zaì kàojìn Yǐfǎlián de bā lì Xiàsuǒ yǒu rén wèi Yēshālóng jiǎn yáng maó . Yēshālóng qǐng wáng de zhòng zǐ yǔ tā tóng qù .