2-Samuel - 13:17



17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Samuel 13:17.

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But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust this woman out from me: and shut the door after her.
Then he called his young man that attended upon him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
and calleth his young man, his servant, and saith, 'Send away, I pray thee, this one from me without, and bolt the door after her;'
Then he gave a cry to the servant who was waiting on him and said, Put this woman out, and let the door be locked after her.
Instead, calling the servants who were ministering to him, he said, "Cast this woman out from me, and close the door behind her."

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Then he called his servants that ministered unto him,.... His domestic servants that waited on him:
and said, put now this woman out from me; she not willing to depart at once, he ordered her to be put out immediately by force; using her and speaking of her in a very rude and scandalous manner, calling her this, leaving it to be supplied, as they would understand it, this base woman, this strumpet, &c.
and bolt the door after her; that she might not return; this was more disgraceful still.

bolt the door after her--The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred--the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Ammon's mind.

Amnon then called the boy who waited upon him, and ordered him to put out this person (the sister he had humbled), and to bolt the door behind her, so that it had the appearance of her having made a shameful proposal to him.

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