Bed Bread Couch Dress Eat Eaten Feign Hast Ill Jonadab Jon'adab Lay Lie Meat Please Prepare Pretend Ready Seem Sick Sight Sister Tamar Thyself Watch
13:5 And Jonadab said unto him, {c} Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.
(c) Here we see that there is no enterprise so wicked that it cannot be encouraged to further wickedness.
13:5 My sister - So he calls her, to prevent the suspicion of any dishonest design upon so near a relation. At her hand - Pretending, his stomach was so nice, that he could eat nothing but what he saw dressed, and that by a person whom he much esteemed.
13:1-20 From henceforward David was followed with one trouble after another. Adultery and murder were David's sins, the like sins among his children were the beginnings of his punishment: he was too indulgent to his children. Thus David might trace the sins of his children to his own misconduct, which must have made the anguish of the chastisement worse. Let no one ever expect good treatment from those who are capable of attempting their seduction; but it is better to suffer the greatest wrong than to commit the least sin.
Bed Bread Dress Eat Feign Food Hand Jonadab Lay Meat Please Sick Sight Sister Tamar Thyself
Bed Bread Dress Eat Feign Food Hand Jonadab Lay Meat Please Sick Sight Sister Tamar Thyself
