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washed and anoynted himselfe, and changed his from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? Then
apparell, and came into the house of the Lord, Amnon answered him, I loue Tamar my brother
and worshipped, and afterward came to his owne Absaloms sister. 5 And Ionadab sayd vnto him,
house, and bade that they should set bread before Lie downe on thy bed, and make thy selfe sicke:
him, and he did eate. 21 Then saide his seruants and when thy father shall come to see thee, say
vnto him, What thing is this, that thou hast done? vnto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come,
thou diddest fast and weepe for the childe while and giue me meate, and let her dresse meate
it was aliue, but when the childe was dead, thou in my sight, that I may see it, and eate it of
diddest rise vp, and eate meate. 22 And he sayde, her hand. 6 So Amnon lay downe, and made
While the childe was yet aliue, I fasted, and wept: himselfe sicke: and when the King came to see
for I sayde, Who can tell whether God will haue him, Amnon sayde vnto the King, I pray thee, let
mercy on me, that the childe may liue? 23 But Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple
now being dead, wherefore shoulde I now fast? of cakes in my sight, that I may receiue meate
Can I bring him againe any more? I shall goe to at her hand. 7 Then Dauid sent home to Tamar,
him, but he shall not returne to me. 24 And Dauid saying, Goe now to thy brother Amnons house,
comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in vnto and dresse him meate. 8 So Tamar went to her
her, and lay with her, and she bare a sonne, and brother Amnons house, and he lay downe: and
he called his name Salomon: also the Lord loued she tooke floure, and knead it, and made cakes
him. 25 For the Lord had sent by Nathan the in his sight, and did bake the cakes. 9 And she
Prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidiah, tooke a pan, and powred them out before him,
because the Lord loued him. 26 Then Ioab fought but he would not eat. Then Amnon saide, Cause
against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and ye euery man to goe out from me: so euery man
tooke the citie of the kingdome. 27 Therefore went out from him. 10 Then Amnon said vnto
Ioab sent messengers to Dauid, saying, I haue Tamar, Bring the meate into the chamber, that
fought against Rabbah, and haue taken the citie I may eate of thine hand. And Tamar tooke the
of waters. 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the cakes which shee had made, and brought them
people together, and besiege the city, that thou into the chamber to Amnon her brother. 11 And
mayest take it, lest the victorie be attributed to when she had set them before him to eate, he
me. 29 So Dauid gathered al the people together, tooke her, and sayd vnto her, Come, lye with
and went against Rabbah, and besieged it, and me, my sister. 12 But shee answered him, Nay,
tooke it. 30 And he tooke their Kings crowne my brother, doe not force me: for no such thing
from his head, (which weighed a talent of golde, ought to be done in Israel: commit not this follie.
with precious stones) and it was set on Dauids 13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to goe?
head: and he brought away the spoyle of the and thou shalt be as one of the fooles in Israel:
now therefore, I pray thee, speake to the King,
citie in exceeding great abundance. 31 And he for he will not denie me vnto thee. 14 Howbeit
carryed away the people that was therein, and he would not hearken vnto her voyce, but being
put them vnder sawes, and vnder yron harowes, stronger then she, forced her, and lay with her.
and vnder axes of yron, and cast them into the 15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that
tyle kylne: euen thus did he with all the cities of the hatred wherewith he hated her, was greater
the children of Ammon. Then Dauid and all the then the loue, wherewith hee had loued her:
people returned vnto Ierusalem. and Amnon sayde vnto her, Vp, get thee hence.
13 16 And she answered him, There is no cause: this
1 Now after this so it was, that Absalom the euill (to put mee away) is greater then the other
sonne of Dauid hauing a fayre sister, whose name that thou diddest vnto me: but he would not
But called his seruant that serued
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heare her,
was Tamar, Amnon the sonne of Dauid loued him, and sayd, Put this woman now out from
her. 2 And Amnon was so sore vexed, that he 18
fell sicke for his sister Tamar: for she was a me, and locke the doore after her. (And she
virgin, and it seemed hard to Amnon to doe any had a garment of diuers coulours vpon her: for
thing to her. 3 But Amnon had a friend called with such garments were the Kings daughters
Ionadab, the sonne of Shimeah Dauids brother: that were virgins, apparelled) Then his seruant
and Ionadab was a very subtile man. Who sayde brought her out, and locked the doore after her.
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vnto him, Why art thou the Kings sonne so leane 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head and rent