id to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O
son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon
said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.

13:5. And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself
sick: and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my
sister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make
me a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.

13:6. So Ammon lay down, and made as if he were sick: and when the king
came to visit him, Ammon said to the king: I pray thee let my sister
Thamar come, and make in my sight two little messes, that I may eat at
her hand.

13:7. Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy
brother Ammon, and make him a mess.

13:8. And Thamar came to the house of Ammon her brother: but he was laid
down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight
she made little messes.

13:9. And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it
before him, but he would not eat: and Ammon said: Put out all persons
from me. And when they had put all persons out,

13:10. Ammon said to Thamar: Bring the mess into the chamber, that I may
eat at thy hand. And Thamar took the little messes which she had made,
and brought them in to her brother Ammon in the chamber.

13:11. And when she had presented him the meat, he took hold of her, and
said: Come lie with me, my sister.

13:12. She answered him: Do not so, my brother, do not force me: for no
such thing must be done in Israel. Do not thou this folly.

13:13. For I shall not be able to bear my shame, and thou shalt be as
one of the fools in Israel: but rather speak to the king, and he will
not deny me to thee.

13:14. But he would not hearken to her prayers, but being stronger
overpowered her and lay with her.

13:15. Then Ammon hated her with an exceeding great hatred: so that the
hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love with which he
had loved her before. And Ammon said to her: Arise, and get thee gone.

13:16. She answered him: The evil which now thou dost against me, in
driving me away, is greater than that which thou didst before. And he
would not hearken to her:

13:17. But calling the servants that ministered to him, he said: Thrust
this woman out from me: and shut the door after her.

13:18. And she was clothed with a long robe: for the king's daughters
that were virgins