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2 Samuel 13:2
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
vexed: 1 Kings 21:4, Song of Solomon 5:8, 2 Corinthians 7:10
Amnon: etc. Heb. it was marvellous, or hidden, in the eyes of Amnon
Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 2:5 - for
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So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
So Abram, his wife, and Lot left Egypt, taking everything they owned, and traveled to southern Canaan.
So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
And Abram returned from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
So Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot [his nephew] with him, into the Negev (the South country of Judah).
Therfore Abram stiede fro Egipt, he, and his wijf, and alle thingis that he hadde; and Loth stiede with hym, to the south coost.
And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev-he and his wife and all his possessions-and Lot was with him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Amnon was so vexed,.... Distressed, straitened, and perplexed in his mind through unruly and unbridled lusts that raged in him:
that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; as Antiochus son of Seleucus did for his mother in law Stratonice, who, to cure him of it, was delivered to him by his father s:
for she [was] a virgin; and so kept very recluse from the company of men, that he could not come at her; so Philo t, speaking of the Jewish women, and particularly virgins, says, that they were shut up in their chambers, and through modesty shun the sight of men, even those of their own house; hence they are called עלמות, from a word which signifies to hide; and Phocylides u the poet advises to the shutting of them up in like manner:
and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her; that it was difficult to have access to her, almost impossible, what he despaired of, and what, if attained to, would be wonderful and amazing; he was at his wits' end how to contrive any scheme to get at her, and obtain his desire.
s See the Universal History, vol. 3. p. 519. Ed. fol. t In Flaccum, p. 977. u Poem. admon. v. 203, 204.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Samuel 13:2. Amnon was so vexed - for she was a virgin — It has been well remarked that "the passion of love is nowhere so wasting and vexatious, as where it is unlawful. A quick sense of guilt, especially where it is enormous, as in the present instance, strikes the soul with horror; and the impossibility of an innocent gratification loads that horror with desperation: a conflict too cruel and too dreadful for human bearing." - Delaney.
