2And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.
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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)We have here a particular account of the abominable wickedness of Amnon in ravishing his sister, a subject not fit to be enlarged upon nor indeed to be mentioned without blushing, that ever any man should be so vile, especially that a son of David should be so. Amnon’s character, we have reason to think, was bad in other things; if he had not forsaken God, he would never have been given up to thes…
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