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Should a royal prince pine away, day in, day out, and not tell the reason? Then Amnon told him, I am in love with my brother Absalom’s sister, Tamar. (2 Samuel 13, 4)
So David sent word to Tamar’s home, bidding her go to her brother Amnon’s house and make gruel for him; (2 Samuel 13, 7)
and to her brother Amnon’s house she went, to find him lying abed. She took the flour and stirred it and boiled it, and when her cooking was done, she poured it out, and put it down beside him; (2 Samuel 13, 8)
he bade her come into his room and give it to him with her own hand. So Tamar took the gruel and brought it into her brother Amnon’s room; (2 Samuel 13, 10)
Nay, brother, said she, do not force me to thy will; in all Israel, that were deemed great wrong. Forbear thy recklessness; (2 Samuel 13, 12)
So thy brother Amnon bedded thee? Absalom said to her. Keep silent for this while; he is thy brother. Do not eat thy heart out over it. So Tamar remained there in Absalom’s house, pining away. (2 Samuel 13, 20)
Then at least, said Absalom, let my brother Amnon come with us, if thou wilt not. There is no need for that, David said, (2 Samuel 13, 26)
Only Jonadab, son of Semmaa that was David’s brother, would have none of it; Do not believe, my lord King, he said, that all the princes have been killed; Amnon is dead, but only he. His name was ever on Absalom’s lips, since the day of his sister Tamar’s dishonouring. (2 Samuel 13, 32)
And now the whole clan is at my heels; give up the murderer I must, so that they may kill him in vengeance for his brother’s death, and make an end of the race. The one hope that is left me they would extinguish, so that my husband will have none left on earth to bear his name. (2 Samuel 14, 7)
one third he entrusted to Joab, one third to Joab’s brother Abisai, and the remainder to Ethai of Geth. He himself, he told his men, would go into battle with them, (2 Samuel 18, 2)
Greetings to thee, brother, said Joab, and with that he clapped his right hand under Amasa’s chin, as if he would kiss him; (2 Samuel 20, 9)
then, with the dagger that had gone unmarked, he struck him in the side, and spilt his entrails on the ground, so that he died without a second blow. After this, Joab and his brother Abisai continued their pursuit of Seba, son of Bochri. (2 Samuel 20, 10)
