RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's bayit; and he
was lying down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and
made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him;
but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have all men
leave me. And every man went out from him.
10 And Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the
bedroom, that I might eat from your hand. And Tamar
took the cakes that she had made, and brought them into
the bedroom to Amnon her brother.
11 And when she had brought them to him to eat, he
grabbed her, and said to her, Come lie with me, my sister.
12 And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force
me, for no such thing is to be done in Yisrael: do not do
this wickedness.
13 And I, how then shall I ever cause my shame to
depart? And as for you, you shall be as one of the fools in
Yisrael. Now therefore, I beg you, speak to the melech;
for he will not withhold me from you.
14 But he would not listen to her voice: but, being
stronger than her, forced her, and lay with her.
15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred
with which he hated her was even greater than the ahava
with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her,
Arise, and get out of here.
16 And she said to him, There is no cause: this evil in
sending me away is greater than the other evil that you
did to me. But he would not listen to her.
17 Then he called his eved that served him, and said, Put
now this woman out of my room, and bolt the door after
her.
18 And she had a garment of divers colors upon her: for
with such robes were the melech's daughters that were
virgins dressed. Then his eved brought her out, and bolted
the door after her.
19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her
garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her
hand on her head, and went away crying.
20 And Avshalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon
your brother been with you? But hold now your silence,
my sister: he is your brother; regard not this thing. So
Tamar remained desolate and horrified in her brother
Avshalom's bayit.
21 But when melech Dawid heard of all these things, he
was very angry. But he would not inflict pain on his son
Amnon’s ruach, because he loved him, since he was his
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22 And Avshalom spoke to his brother Amnon neither tov
nor bad: for Avshalom hated Amnon, because he had
forced his sister Tamar to lie with him.
23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Avshalom
had sheepshearers in Ba’al-Hatzor, which is next to
Efrayim: and Avshalom invited all the melech's sons.
24 And Avshalom came to the melech, and said, See now,
your eved has sheepshearers; let the melech, I ask you,
and his avadim go with your eved.
25 And the melech said to Avshalom, No, my son, let us
not all now go, lest we be a burden to you. And he
pressured him: however he would not go, but blessed
him.
26 Then said Avshalom, If not, I beg you, let my brother
Amnon go with us. And the melech said to him, Why
should he go with you?
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27 But Avshalom pressured him so that he let Amnon and
all the melech's sons go with him.
28 Now Avshalom had commanded his avadim, saying,
Take note now when you see Amnon's lev drunk with
wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then kill him,
fear not: have not I commanded you? Be courageous and
be brave.
29 And the avadim of Avshalom did to Amnon as
Avshalom had commanded. Then all the melech's sons
arose, and every man got up upon his mule, and fled.
30 And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that
news came to Dawid, saying, Avshalom has slain all the
melech's sons, and there is not one of them left.
31 Then the melech arose, and tore his garments, and lay
on the earth; and all his avadim stood by with their
clothes torn.
32 And Yonadav, the son of Shimeah Dawid's brother,
answered and said, Let not my master suppose that they
have slain all the young men the melech's sons; for
Amnon only is dead: for by the order of Avshalom this
has been determined from the day that he forced his sister
Tamar.
33 Now therefore let not my master the melech take the
thing to his lev, to think that all the melech's sons are
dead: for Amnon only is dead.
34 But Avshalom fled. And the young man that kept the
guard lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, see, there came
many people by the way of the hillside behind him.
35 And Yonadav said to the melech, See, the melech's
sons come: as your eved said, so it is.
36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of
speaking, that, see, the melech's sons came, and lifted up
their voice and wept: and the melech also and all his
avadim wept very hard.
37 But Avshalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of
Ammihud, melech of Geshur. And Dawid mourned for
his son every day.
38 So Avshalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there
three years.
39 And the chayim of melech Dawid longed to go forth to
Avshalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon,
because he was dead.
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Now Yoav the son of Tzuruyah perceived that the
melech's lev was longing for Avshalom.
2 And Yoav sent to Tekoah, and fetched there a wise
woman, and said to her, I ask you, feign yourself to be a
mourner, and put on now mourning clothes, and anoint
not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long
time mourned for the dead:
3 And come to the melech, and speak in this manner to
him. So Yoav put the words in her mouth.
4 And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the melech,
she fell on her face to the ground, and did prostrate
herself, and said, Help, O melech.
5 And the melech said to her, What bothers you? And she
answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband
is dead.
6 And your female eved had two sons, and they two
strove together in the field, and there was none to part
them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.
7 And, see, the whole mishpacha has risen against your
female eved, and they said, Deliver him that smote his