2 Samuel 13:9

7 And David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Now go to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”

8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

9 And she took the pan and placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, ^a“Have everyone go out from me.” And they all went out from him.

10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon her brother in the bedroom.

11 Now when she had brought them to him to eat, ^ahe took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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2 Samuel 13:6-9

Make me cakes ... a pan - The words here used occur nowhere else, and the etymology is doubtful. Some particular kind of cake or pudding is meant II Samuel 13:8, called a lābı̂ybâh ; according to some, it was, from its etymology, shaped like a heart.

II Samuel 13:9

The dish into which she poured the lābı̂ybâh was doubtless borne to him by one of the servants into the chamber where he lay, and from which, the doors being open, he could see the outer room where Tamar prepared the meat.

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