2 Samuel 13:13

13 ¿A dónde iría yo con mi vergüenza? ¿Y qué sería de ti? ¡Serías visto en Israel como un depravado! Yo te ruego que hables con el rey; con toda seguridad, no se opondrá a que yo sea tu esposa.

2 Samuel 13:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 13:13

And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go?
&c.] She desires him to consider hey reputation, which would be lost; was she to go into a corner, into a place the most private and retired, yet she would blush at the thought of the crime committed; and still less able would she be to lift up her face in any public company; nor could she ever expect to be admitted into the matrimonial state; in short, her character would be entirely ruined:

and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel;
as the vilest and basest and most abandoned in the nation; who ought of all men to be most careful of his reputation, being a prince in Israel, and heir apparent to the throne:

now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king:
to give me to thee in marriage:

for he will not withhold me from thee;
this she said, either as ignorant of the law, which forbids such marriages, or as supposing the king had a power to dispense with it, and, rather than he should die for love, would; though she seems to say this, and anything that occurred to her mind, to put him off of his wicked design for the present, holding then she should be delivered from him; besides, she was not his sister by the mother's side, and, as the Jews say, was born of a captive woman before she was proselyted and married to David, and so was free for Amnon F26; and others say F1 she was the daughter of Maacah by a former husband, and not by David.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 Maimon. Hilchot Melacim, c. 8. sect. 8. Kimchi in 2 Sam. xiii. 1.
F1 R. Moses Kotzensis, pr. affirm. 122.

2 Samuel 13:13 In-Context

11 pero cuando se le acercó para darle de comer, él la agarró por la fuerza y le dijo:—¡Ven, hermanita; acuéstate conmigo!
12 Pero ella exclamó:—¡No, hermano mío! No me humilles, que esto no se hace en Israel. ¡No cometas esta infamia!
13 ¿A dónde iría yo con mi vergüenza? ¿Y qué sería de ti? ¡Serías visto en Israel como un depravado! Yo te ruego que hables con el rey; con toda seguridad, no se opondrá a que yo sea tu esposa.
14 Pero Amnón no le hizo caso sino que, aprovechándose de su fuerza, se acostó con ella y la violó.
15 Pero el odio que sintió por ella después de violarla fue mayor que el amor que antes le había tenido. Así que le dijo:—¡Levántate y vete!
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