2 Samuel 13:6 meaning and explanation
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 13:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Amnon, King David's eldest son, is speaking to his father, who has come to visit him in his pretended illness. The request sounds harmless, but it is the trap Jonadab coached him to set in verse 5: Amnon wants Tamar brought into his private rooms, and David, suspecting nothing, grants it.
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