2 Samuel 13:15

13:15 Then Amnon greatly despised her. ¹  His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her. ²  Amnon said to her, “Get up and leave!”

2 Samuel 13:2

13:2 But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick ³  over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.

1 Samuel 12:21

12:21 You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ⁵  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ⁶  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “and Amnon hated her with very great hatred.”

² tn Heb “for greater was the hatred with which he hated her than the love with which he loved her.”

³ tn Heb “and there was distress to Amnon so that he made himself sick.”

⁴ tn Or “useless” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “nothing”; NASB “futile”; TEV “are not real.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

⁷ tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”

sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.