Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
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.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 13:1-20
Then David sent home to Tamar,.... Who perhaps was not in the king's palace, but at her brother Absalom's house, Sa2 13:20, saying, go now to thy brother Amnon's house; who also had a separate house and equipage, being the king's son, and his eldest son: and dress him meat; such as he may desire, and his stomach will bear.
HE DEFILES HER. (2Sa. 13:6-27) Amnon lay down, and made himself sick--The Orientals are great adepts in feigning sickness, whenever they have any object to accomplish. let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of cakes--To the king Amnon spoke of Tamar as "his sister," a term artfully designed to hoodwink his father; and the request appeared so natural, the delicate appetite of...
Commenting on 2 Samuel 13:6-27