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2 Samuel 13:6

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So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.

KJV

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Make me cakes ... a pan - The words here used occur nowhere else, and the etymology is doubtful. Some particular kind of cake or pudding is meant 2Sa 13:8, called a לביבה lābı̂ybâh; according to some, it was, from its etymology, shaped like a heart. 2Sa 13:9 The dish into which she poured the לביבה lābı̂ybâh was doubtless borne to him by one of the servants into the chamber where he lay, and from which, the doors being open, he could see the outer room where Tamar prepared the meat.

This site's exposition

so depressed morning after morning

on 2 Samuel 13:4-6

Jonadab reads Amnon's sickness and supplies the whole plan: feign illness, ask for Tamar by name, get her alone in the inner chamber. A counselor's gift used for evil is worse than none, since it hands sin the cunning it lacked on its own.

This site's exposition

make a couple of cakes

Albert Barnes notes that the words for these cakes and the pan appear only in this passage, and their origin is doubtful. Some tied the cake's name to the Hebrew for heart. On that reading Amnon asked for heart-shaped cakes while posing as a man sick with love.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus he lieth in wait secretly, as a lion in his den, to catch the poor, and to draw them into his net, Ps. x. David was always fond of his children, and concerned if any thing ailed them; he no sooner hears that Amnon is sick than he comes himself to visit him.
So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick,....

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥בand he lay down

    vaiyishkavH7901 →212 times

  • אַמְנ֖וֹןAmnon

    ʾamnonH550 →28 times

  • וַיִּתְחָ֑לand he made himself sick

    vaiyitchalH2470 →76 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֨אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • הַמֶּ֜לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • לִרְאֹת֗וֹto see him

    lirotoH7200 →1300 times

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אַמְנ֤וֹןAmnon

    ʾamnonH550 →28 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • תָּֽבוֹא־let her come

    tavo'-H935 →2568 times

  • נָ֞אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • תָּמָ֣רTamar

    tamarH8559 →25 times

  • אֲחֹתִ֗יsister my

    ʾachotiH269 →114 times

  • וּתְלַבֵּ֤בand let her make cakes

    utelabevH3823 →

  • לְעֵינַי֙to eyes my

    leeinaiH5869 →887 times

  • שְׁתֵּ֣יtwo

    sheteiH8147 →768 times

  • לְבִב֔וֹתcakes

    levivotH3834 →3 times

  • וְאֶבְרֶ֖הso I may eat

    veevrehH1262 →6 times

  • מִיָּדָֽהּ׃from hand her

    miyadahH3027 →1618 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Matthew 13:33

    He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:9

      A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

    • 1 Corinthians 5:6–7

      Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?

    • Luke 13:21

      It is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

    • Philippians 2:13–15

      For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

    • Genesis 18:6

      So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

  • Through

    Genesis 18:6

    So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:13

      For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

    • Matthew 13:33

      He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”

    • Romans 12:13

      Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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