English Standard Version

2 Samuel 13:7-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

7. Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare food for him.”

8. So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.

9. And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out everyone from me.” So everyone went out from him.

10. Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

11. But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”

12. She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.

13. As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

14. But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.

15. Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”

16. But she said to him, “No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.

17. He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”