16 “No,” she cried,[a] “sending me away is much worse than the great wrong you’ve already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her. 17 Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him: “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!” 18 Amnon’s servant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a long-sleeved[b] garment, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:16 Lit she said to him
  2. 2 Samuel 13:18 Or an ornamented; Gn 37:3

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