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AMNON

(Heb. ʾamnôn, ʾamnōn)

1. The firstborn son of David and Ahinoam of Jezreel (2 Sam. 3:2 = 1 Chr. 3:1). His story illustrates the judgment announced by Nathan for David’s crimes of adultery and murder (2 Sam. 12:11-12). Amnon’s obsessive desire for his beautiful half-sister Tamar distressed him. Acting on the advice of his cousin Jonadab, Amnon feigned illness and asked David to send Tamar to visit and prepare food for him. When Tamar brought the food into his room, he seized her and urged her to submit to his desire. She recoiled and pleaded that he speak to their father about marriage, but Amnon refused to listen. He raped her and then ordered her out of his house. When she pleaded that he not add to the wrong he had already done to her, Amnon ordered her thrown into the street. Unable to console his sister, Absalom sought revenge when two years later he invited the king and princes to celebrate the shearing of his flocks at Baal-hazor. David was not willing to go, perhaps suspicious of Absalom’s request that Amnon be allowed to attend, but finally allowed all the princes to attend Absalom’s feast. When Amnon was under the influence of the wine, Absalom ordered his servants to kill him, revenge he had contemplated since Amnon’s rape of Tamar.

2. A son of Shimon, descendant of Judah (1 Chr. 4:20).

Keith L. Eades

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AMNON

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)