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Tamar was a princess of Israel, the daughter of King David and sister of Absalom in 2 Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative (2 Samuel 13), she is raped by her half-brother Amnon.
Tamar was the beautiful daughter of the great King David and Maacah, a princess from a neighboring kingdom. Her half-brother Amnon became obsessed with her. He lured her to his room and raped her, then refused to marry her. She was disgraced, and never married. Her embittered brother Absalom rebelled against David, but was defeated and killed.
The story of Tamar, David’s daughter, is told in 2Sam 13:1-22. She is raped by her brother Amnon and silenced by her brother Absalom. The larger narrative in which Tamar’s story is told deals with male matters.
Jan 4, 2022 · This article will focus on Tamar the daughter-in-law of Judah; and Tamar the daughter of David. Jacob’s son Judah (patriarch of the line of Judah) had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. A woman named Tamar married Er, but then Er died, leaving her a widow.
Oct 12, 2023 · The first Tamar we read about in Scripture was the widow of Er and Onan, sons of Judah, Jacob’s fourth-born son. The second was the sister of Absalom and daughter of King David, who was raped by her half-brother Amnon.
Jan 21, 2020 · Published Jan 21, 2020. There are two significant women named “Tamar” in the Bible. Both appear in the Old Testament. One the daughter of King David, and the other bore a son in the...
Jun 23, 2021 · The story of the rape of Tamar, daughter of King David, by Amnon, her half-brother (2 Samuel 13) is told in the wake of the king’s sins of adultery and murder. When Tamar attends Amnon, who feigns illness, he seizes her and rapes her, and then banishes her from the room.
Tamar, whose story is embedded in the ancestor narratives of Genesis, is the ancestress of much of the tribe of Judah and, in particular, of the house of David. She is the daughter-in-law of Judah, who acquires her for his firstborn son, Er.
Apr 4, 2024 · The third wife is Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur, which stretched east of the Sea of Galilee to what is now the Golan Heights. Maacah gave birth to a son, Absalom, and a daughter,...
How did a non-Israelite woman, best known for dressing up as a prostitute and seducing her father-in-law, become a celebrated ancestor of King David and of Jesus? Tamar’s story is told in Gen 38. We know almost nothing of her background, except that she was chosen by Judah to be a wife for his firstborn, Er.
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