5. Then Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed. Act sick, and when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come to feed me. She can prepare a meal in front of me as I watch her, and she can feed me.’ ”
6. So Amnon lay down and acted sick, and the king came to see him. Amnon asked the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make some bread in front of me, and she can feed me.”
7. David sent for Tamar at the palace. “Please go to your brother Amnon’s home,” he said, “and prepare some food for him.”
8. So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s home. He was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made flat bread in front of him, and cooked it.
9. Then she took the pan and served him ⌊the bread⌋. But he refused to eat.“Have everyone leave me,” he said. So everyone left him.
10. Amnon told Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom so that you can feed me.”Tamar took the bread she had prepared and brought it to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.
11. When she handed it to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come to bed with me, Tamar!”
12. “No,” she told him, “don’t rape me! That shouldn’t be done in Israel. Don’t do this godless act!
13. Where could I go in my disgrace? And you will be considered one of the godless fools in Israel! Speak to the king. He won’t refuse your request to marry me.”
14. But Amnon wouldn’t listen to her. He grabbed his sister and raped her.