13 14 Amnon David’s son defileth his sister Tamar.  20 Tamar is comforted by her brother Absalom.  29 Absalom therefore killeth Amnon.

Now after this, so it was, that Absalom the son of David having a fair sister, whose name was [a]Tamar, Amnon the son of David loved her.

And Amnon was so sore vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar: for she was a [b]virgin, and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:1 Tamar was Absalom’s sister both by father and mother, and Amnon’s only by father.
  2. 2 Samuel 13:2 And therefore kept in her father’s house, as virgins were accustomed.

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