2 Samuel 13:22

22 Or Absalom ne parlait ni en bien ni en mal à Amnon; car Absalom haïssait Amnon, parce qu'il avait outragé Tamar, sa sœur.

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 Et son frère Absalom lui dit: Amnon, ton frère, a été avec toi? Maintenant, ma sœur, tais-toi, c'est ton frère; ne prends point ceci à cœur. Ainsi Tamar demeura désolée dans la maison d'Absalom, son frère.

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

22 Or Absalom ne parlait ni en bien ni en mal à Amnon; car Absalom haïssait Amnon, parce qu'il avait outragé Tamar, sa sœur.

23 Et il arriva, deux ans après, qu'Absalom ayant les tondeurs à Baal-Hatsor, qui est près d'Éphraïm, il invita tous les fils du roi.

24 Et Absalom vint vers le roi, et dit: Voici, ton serviteur a les tondeurs; je te prie donc, que le roi et ses serviteurs viennent chez ton serviteur.