2 Samuel 13:15-17

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!”

13:16 But she said to him, “No I won’t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!” ³  But he refused to listen to her. 13:17 He called his personal attendant and said to him, “Take this woman out of my sight ⁴  and lock the door behind her!”

[13:15]  ¹ tn Heb “and Amnon hated her with very great hatred.”

[13:15]  ² tn Heb “for greater was the hatred with which he hated her than the love with which he loved her.”

[13:16]  ³ tn Heb “No, because this great evil is [worse] than the other which you did with me, by sending me away.” Perhaps the broken syntax reflects her hysteria and outrage.

[13:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “send this [one] from upon me to the outside.”