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2 Samuel 13:17

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Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

KJV

Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Then he called his servants that ministered unto him,.... His domestic servants that waited on him: and said, put now this woman out from me; she not willing to depart at once, he ordered her to be put out immediately by force; using her and speaking of her in a very rude and scandalous manner, calling her this, leaving it to be supplied, as they would understand it, this base woman, this strumpet, &c. and bolt the door after her; that she might not return; this was more disgraceful still.

This site's exposition

hated her exceedingly

on 2 Samuel 13:15-17

The hatred that follows is stranger than the crime, greater than the love had been, and now it is Amnon who wants distance. Tamar answers that sending her away is a wrong worse than what he did to her, since it denies her even the standing of a wife taken by force and casts her out with nothing. Amnon calls a servant rather than face her again, and the order to bolt the door behind her is his last word in the scene.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

bolt the door after her--The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred--the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Ammon's mind.

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Do not do this thing. Do not do this evil thing of sending [me] away which is worse then the other [evil thing] that you did to me. You raped me and then you added on more evil than that by sending me away.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on II Samuel 13:16:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַיִּקְרָ֗אand he summoned

    vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • נַעֲרוֹ֙young man his

    naaroH5288 →239 times

  • מְשָׁ֣רְת֔וֹ[who] served him

    mesharetoH8334 →

  • וַיֹּ֕אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • שִׁלְחוּ־send away

    shilchu-H7971 →845 times

  • נָ֥אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • זֹ֛אתthis [woman]

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • מֵעָלַ֖יfrom with <the> me

    mealaiH5921 →5755 times

  • הַח֑וּצָהthe outside towards

    hachutzahH2351 →164 times

  • וּנְעֹ֥לand lock

    uneolH5274 →

  • הַדֶּ֖לֶתthe door

    hadeletH1817 →

  • אַחֲרֶֽיהָ׃after her

    ʾachareihaH310 →715 times

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

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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