2 Samuel 13:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.
  • Judg 5:30 : 30 ‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder– a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!’
  • Ps 45:13-14 : 13 The princess looks absolutely magnificent, decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold. 14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.
  • Gen 37:23 : 23 When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.
  • Gen 37:32 : 32 Then they brought the special tunic to their father and said,“We found this. Determine now whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    19 Then Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe she was wearing. She put her hands on her head and went on her way, wailing as she went.

    20 Her brother Absalom said to her,“Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take it so seriously!” Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.

    21 Now King David heard about all these things and was very angry.

  • 82%

    16 But she said to him,“No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” But he refused to listen to her.

    17 He called his personal attendant and said to him,“Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!”

  • Gen 38:13-15
    3 verses
    76%

    13 Tamar was told,“Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

    14 So she removed her widow’s clothes and covered herself with a veil. She wrapped herself and sat at the entrance to Enaim which is on the way to Timnah.(She did this because she saw that she had not been given to Shelah as a wife, even though he had now grown up.)

    15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

  • 19 She left immediately, removed her veil, and put on her widow’s clothes.

  • Ps 45:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 The princess looks absolutely magnificent, decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.

    14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.

  • Gen 39:12-18
    7 verses
    72%

    12 She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying,“Come to bed with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

    13 When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside,

    14 she called for her household servants and said to them,“See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to go to bed with me, but I screamed loudly.

    15 When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.”

    16 So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home.

    17 This is what she said to him:“That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me,

    18 but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.”

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    31 Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

    32 Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, said,“My lord should not say,‘They have killed all the young men who are the king’s sons.’ For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about from the day that Amnon humiliated his sister Tamar.

  • Gen 38:23-25
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    23 Judah said,“Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

    24 After three months Judah was told,“Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant.” Judah said,“Bring her out and let her be burned!”

    25 While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law:“I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” Then she said,“Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong.”

  • 11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar,“Live as a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up.” For he thought,“I don’t want him to die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.

  • 27 Absalom had three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman.

  • 13 the woman would go to the king in the following way: Whatever she asked for would be provided for her to take with her from the harem to the royal palace.

  • 17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying,‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.

  • 22 because she had made coverings for herself; and because her clothing was fine linen and purple.

  • 21 She said,“I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.

  • 38 He said,“You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

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    7 So David sent Tamar to the house saying,“Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare some food for him.”

    8 So Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, who was lying down. She took the dough, kneaded it, made some cakes while he watched, and baked them.

    9 But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said,“Get everyone out of here!” So everyone left.

    10 Then Amnon said to Tamar,“Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.

    11 As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her,“Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

  • 2 Sam 13:1-2
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    68%

    1 The Rape of Tamar Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her.

    2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.

  • 14 But he refused to listen to her. He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her.

  • 20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

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    14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”

    15 Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.

  • 16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

  • 5 Jonadab replied to him,“Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him,‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”

  • 30 When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.

  • 15 wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.