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She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is [worse] than the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her.
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The Compounded Injustice
Commentators explain that Tamar viewed being publicly cast out as a greater injury than the rape itself. John Gill notes that while the first act was a secret sin born of lust, the second was a public act of cruelty. It destroyed her reputation, ruined her future, and suggested she might have been a willing participant, thus compounding the initial evil.
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2 Samuel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The sense of the passage is likely this: "And she spoke with him on account of this great wrong in sending me away, greater than the other wrong wh…
19th Century
Anglican
There is no cause. —The Hebrew is elliptical and difficult; various interpretations are suggested, among which that given in the Authorise…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And she said unto him, [there is] no cause For such treatment as this:
this evil in sending me aw…
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