2 Samuel 13
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
Amnón y Tamar
13 Pasado algún tiempo, sucedió lo siguiente. Absalón hijo de David tenía una hermana muy bella, que se llamaba Tamar; y Amnón, otro hijo de David, se enamoró de ella. 2 Pero, como Tamar era virgen, Amnón se enfermó de angustia al pensar que le sería muy difícil llevar a cabo sus intenciones con su hermana. 3 Sin embargo, Amnón tenía un amigo muy astuto, que se llamaba Jonadab, y que era hijo de Simá y sobrino de David. 4 Jonadab le preguntó a Amnón:
―¿Cómo es que tú, todo un príncipe, te ves cada día peor? ¿Por qué no me cuentas lo que te pasa?
―Es que estoy muy enamorado de mi hermana Tamar —respondió Amnón.
5 Jonadab le sugirió:
―Acuéstate y finge que estás enfermo. Cuando tu padre vaya a verte, dile: “Por favor, que venga mi hermana Tamar a darme de comer. Quisiera verla preparar la comida aquí mismo, y que ella me la sirva”.
6 Así que Amnón se acostó y fingió estar enfermo. Y, cuando el rey fue a verlo, Amnón le dijo:
―Por favor, que venga mi hermana Tamar a prepararme aquí mismo dos tortas, y que me las sirva.
7 David envió un mensajero a la casa de Tamar, para que le diera este recado: «Ve a casa de tu hermano Amnón, y prepárale la comida». 8 Tamar fue a casa de su hermano Amnón y lo encontró acostado. Tomó harina, la amasó, preparó las tortas allí mismo, y las coció. 9 Luego tomó la sartén para servirle, pero Amnón se negó a comer y ordenó:
―¡Fuera de aquí todos!
Una vez que todos salieron, 10 Amnón le dijo a Tamar:
―Trae la comida a mi habitación, y dame de comer tú misma.
Ella tomó las tortas que había preparado y se las llevó a su hermano Amnón a la habitación, 11 pero, cuando se le acercó para darle de comer, él la agarró por la fuerza y le dijo:
―¡Ven, hermanita; acuéstate conmigo!
12 Pero ella exclamó:
―¡No, hermano mío! No me humilles, que esto no se hace en Israel. ¡No cometas esta infamia! 13 ¿A dónde iría yo con mi vergüenza? ¿Y qué sería de ti? ¡Serías visto en Israel como un depravado! Yo te ruego que hables con el rey; con toda seguridad, no se opondrá a que yo sea tu esposa.
14 Pero Amnón no le hizo caso, sino que, aprovechándose de su fuerza, se acostó con ella y la violó. 15 Pero el odio que sintió por ella después de violarla fue mayor que el amor que antes le había tenido. Así que le dijo:
―¡Levántate y vete!
16 ―¡No me eches de aquí! —replicó ella—. Después de lo que has hecho conmigo, ¡echarme de aquí sería una maldad aún más terrible!
Pero él no le hizo caso, 17 sino que llamó a su criado y le ordenó:
―¡Echa de aquí a esta mujer y cierra la puerta!
18 Así que el criado la echó de la casa, y luego cerró bien la puerta.
Tamar llevaba puesta una túnica muy elegante,[a] pues así se vestían las princesas vírgenes. 19 Al salir, se echó ceniza en la cabeza, se rasgó la túnica y, llevándose las manos a la cabeza, se fue por el camino llorando a gritos. 20 Entonces su hermano Absalón le dijo:
―¡Así que tu hermano Amnón ha estado contigo! Pues bien, hermana mía, cálmate y no digas nada. Ten en cuenta que es tu hermano.
Desolada, Tamar se quedó a vivir en casa de su hermano Absalón. 21 El rey David, al enterarse de todo lo que había pasado, se enfureció. 22 Absalón, por su parte, no le dirigía la palabra a Amnón, pues lo odiaba por haber violado a su hermana Tamar.
Asesinato de Amnón
23 Pasados dos años, Absalón convidó a todos los hijos del rey a un banquete en Baal Jazor, cerca de la frontera de Efraín, donde sus hombres estaban esquilando ovejas. 24 Además, se presentó ante el rey y le dijo:
―Este tu siervo tiene esquiladores trabajando. Te ruego venir con tu corte.
25 ―No, hijo mío —le respondió el rey—. No debemos ir todos, pues te seríamos una carga.
Absalón insistió, pero el rey no quiso ir; sin embargo, le dio su bendición. 26 Entonces Absalón le dijo:
―Ya que mi señor el rey no viene, ¿por qué no permites que nos acompañe mi hermano Amnón?
―¿Y para qué va a ir contigo? —le preguntó el rey.
27 Pero tanto insistió Absalón que el rey dejó que Amnón y sus otros hijos fueran con Absalón. 28 Este, por su parte, les había dado instrucciones a sus criados: «No perdáis de vista a Amnón. Y, cuando se le haya subido el vino,[b] yo os daré la señal de ataque, y vosotros lo mataréis. No tengáis miedo, pues soy yo quien os da la orden. Ánimo; sed valientes».
29 Los criados hicieron con Amnón tal como Absalón les había ordenado. Entonces los otros hijos del rey se levantaron y, montando cada uno en su mula, salieron huyendo.
30 Todavía estaban en camino cuando llegó este rumor a oídos de David: «¡Absalón ha matado a todos los hijos del rey! ¡Ninguno de ellos ha quedado con vida!»
31 El rey se levantó y, rasgándose las vestiduras en señal de duelo, se arrojó al suelo. También todos los oficiales que estaban con él se rasgaron las vestiduras. 32 Pero Jonadab, el hijo de Simá y sobrino de David, intervino:
―No piense mi señor que todos los príncipes han sido asesinados, sino solo Amnón. Absalón ya lo tenía decidido desde el día en que Amnón violó a su hermana Tamar. 33 Mi señor el rey no debe dejarse llevar por el rumor de que han muerto todos sus hijos, pues el único que ha muerto es Amnón.
34 El centinela de la ciudad alzó la vista y vio que del oeste, por la ladera del monte, venía bajando una gran multitud. Entonces fue a decirle al rey: «Veo venir gente por el camino de Joronayin, por la ladera del monte».[c] Mientras tanto, Absalón había huido. 35 Jonadab le comentó al rey:
―Aquí llegan tus hijos, tal como yo te lo había dicho.
36 Apenas había terminado de hablar cuando entraron los hijos del rey, todos ellos llorando a voz en grito, y también el rey y sus oficiales se pusieron a llorar desconsoladamente.
37-38 Absalón, en su huida, fue a refugiarse con Talmay hijo de Amiud, rey de Guesur, y allí se quedó tres años. David, por su parte, lloraba todos los días por su hijo Amnón 39 y, cuando se consoló por su muerte, comenzó a sentir grandes deseos de ver a Absalón.
2 Samuel 13
International Standard Version
Amnon’s Rape of Tamar
13 Sometime after this, David’s son Amnon fell in love with David’s other[a] son Absalom’s beautiful sister Tamar. 2 Amnon became so emotionally distressed that he fell sick over his half-sister Tamar. She was a virgin, and Amnon found it difficult to do anything to her.
3 Meanwhile, Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, who was the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Now Jonadab was a very shrewd man. 4 “Why are you so depressed these past few mornings,”[b] Jonadab[c] asked Amnon, “since you’re a son of the king? Why not tell me?”
Amnon replied, “I’m in love with my brother Absalom’s sister Tamar.”
5 Jonadab advised him, “Lie down and pretend to be sick. When your father visits you, ask him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat that she prepares especially for me,[d] and after she makes dinner for me, let her feed it to me personally.’”[e]
6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to visit him, Amnon asked the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make some of her bread especially for me,[f] so she can feed it to me personally.”[g]
7 So David sent for Tamar back at the palace, telling her, “Please go to your brother Amnon’s home and prepare some food for him.” 8 Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s home, where he was lying down. She brought along some dough, kneaded it, prepared some cakes especially for him,[h] baked them, 9 and emptied the baking skillet just for him, but he refused to eat.
“Send everybody out of here,” Amnon said. So everyone left the room. 10 Amnon told Tamar, “Bring the food into my private bedroom, so I can eat it with you personally.”[i] So Tamar took the cakes she had prepared and brought them into the private bedroom for her brother Amnon.
11 But as soon as she brought them near him to eat, he overpowered her and told her, “Come here and have sex with me, my sister!”
12 “No, my brother!” she kept telling him. “Don’t humiliate me like this! This just isn’t done in Israel! Don’t do this utterly foolish thing! 13 And what about me? Where will I go to escape[j] this disgrace? And as for you, you’ll be known as one of Israel’s greatest fools! So please talk to the king, because he won’t withhold me from you!”
14 But he was unwilling to listen to what she was saying. Since he was stronger than she was, he forced her into having sex with him. 15 Afterwards, though, Amnon hated her very intensely. As a result, his hatred for her exceeded the love that he had previously for her. So Amnon told her, “Get up! Leave!”
16 Even so, she tried to tell him, “No! After all, it’s more wrong to send me away than what you just did to me!”
But he was unwilling to listen to her. 17 So he called out to a young man who was serving him, and told him: “Send this woman away from me and lock the door after her.”
18 Now she was clothed in a long sleeved, multi-colored ornamental tunic, commonly worn by the king’s virgin daughters. When Amnon’s[k] servant threw her out and locked the door after her, 19 Tamar rubbed her head with ashes, tore her tunic that she was wearing, put her hand to her head, and ran off, crying aloud as she went away.
Absalom’s Plans Revenge
20 Later, her brother Absalom asked her, “Has Amnon, that brother of yours, raped[l] you? Then keep quiet about your half-brother for now, my sister. Stop taking this so personally.”[m] From that time on, Tamar lived in continuous desolation within her brother Absalom’s house. 21 When King David heard all about these developments, he flew into a rage over it. 22 But Absalom never said a word, either good or bad, to Amnon. Nevertheless, he hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.
Absalom’s Men Kill Amnon
23 Two full years later, Absalom took some men to Baal-hazor near Ephraim to shear his sheep. He[n] also invited all of the king’s sons to come. 24 Absalom had gone to the king to ask him, “I’ve brought some men to shear the sheep. Won’t you please come and join me, along with your senior staff?”
25 But King David declined,[o] saying to Absalom, “No, my son, we won’t all go, since that would be too much trouble for you.” Although Absalom begged David, he would not go, even though he did give his blessing.
26 So Absalom responded, “If you aren’t coming, please allow my brother Amnon to accompany us.”
The king asked, “Why should he go with you?”
27 But Absalom kept begging David[p] until he sent Amnon and all of David’s[q] sons to accompany Absalom.
28 Then Absalom instructed his young men, “Please keep watching Amnon until he’s drunk. Then I’ll tell you, ‘Attack Amnon!’ As soon as I do, kill him and don’t be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!” 29 So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as they had been[r] ordered, but the rest of David’s sons jumped up, mounted their mules, and escaped.
30 While they were still on the road, this rumor came to David: “Absalom has struck down all of the king’s sons and none of them has survived.” 31 David arose, ripped his clothes in anguish,[s] and collapsed to the ground while all of his staff stood by with their own clothes torn.
32 But David’s brother Shimeah’s son Jonadab reported, “Your majesty, don’t assume they’ve killed all of the young men—the king’s sons—only Amnon has died, since that was Absalom’s intention from the day Amnon raped[t] his sister Tamar. 33 Now your majesty, don’t be concerned about this rumor that all the king’s sons have died, because only Amnon is dead.”
34 Meanwhile, Absalom had run away. While the young man standing watch was looking around, all of a sudden he observed many people coming down the road behind and to the west of the mountain! So the watchman left his post and reported, “I have seen men coming from the direction of Horonaim.”[u]
35 Jonadab told the king, “Look! Here come the king’s sons. This thing has turned out just like your servant reported.” 36 Just as he finished his comments, the king’s sons arrived, crying loudly. At this, with tears overflowing, the king and his entire staff wept bitterly.
37 Absalom continued to flee, eventually going to Ammihud’s son King Talmai of Geshur, while King David continued to mourn for his son every day. 38 After fleeing to Geshur, Absalom remained there for three years. 39 Meanwhile, King David longed to visit Absalom, since he was moved to compassion over Amnon’s death.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 13:1 The Heb. lacks other
- 2 Samuel 13:4 Lit. depressed morning by morning
- 2 Samuel 13:4 Lit. he
- 2 Samuel 13:5 Lit. prepares in my sight
- 2 Samuel 13:5 Lit. it from her hand
- 2 Samuel 13:6 Lit. bread in my sight
- 2 Samuel 13:6 Lit. it from her hand
- 2 Samuel 13:8 Lit. some bread in his sight
- 2 Samuel 13:10 Lit. it from your hand
- 2 Samuel 13:13 Or carry
- 2 Samuel 13:18 Lit. his
- 2 Samuel 13:20 Or yours, been with
- 2 Samuel 13:20 Lit. this matter to your heart
- 2 Samuel 13:23 Lit. Absalom
- 2 Samuel 13:25 Lit. David replied
- 2 Samuel 13:27 Lit. him
- 2 Samuel 13:27 Lit. all the king’s
- 2 Samuel 13:29 Lit. as Absalom had
- 2 Samuel 13:31 The Heb. lacks in anguish
- 2 Samuel 13:32 Lit. humiliated
- 2 Samuel 13:34 So LXX; the Heb. lacks So the … of Horonaim
2 Samuel 13
King James Version
13 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
2 And 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 anything to her.
3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
6 So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid 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 out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.
10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
11 And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
16 And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
18 And she had a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.
25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.
26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.
35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.
36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
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