2 Samuel 13:5

13:5 Jonadab replied to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. ¹  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.’”

2 Samuel 15:14

15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, ²  “Come on! ³  Let’s escape! ⁴  Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring ⁵  disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” ⁶ 

[13:5]  ¹ tn This verb is used in the Hitpael stem only in this chapter of the Hebrew Bible. With the exception of v. 2 it describes not a real sickness but one pretended in order to entrap Tamar. The Hitpael sometimes, as here, describes the subject making oneself appear to be of a certain character. On this use of the stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.

[15:14]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:14]  ³ tn Heb “Arise!”

[15:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “let’s flee.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “thrust.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”