And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
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Gill's Exposition
And Tamar put ashes on her head,.... In token of sorrow and distress; see Jos 7:6,
and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her; signifying that her virginity was rent from her in a…
Barnes' Notes
Laid her hand on her head - To hold on the ashes (see the marginal references). Went on crying - i. e. “went away, crying out as she went.”
We have here a particular account of the abominable wickedness of Amnon in ravishing his sister, a subject not fit to be enlarged upon nor indeed to be mentioned without blushing, that ever any man…
Cambridge Bible
And Tamar put ashes, &c. The ashes and the torn garments (1Sa 4:12; Est 4:1), and the hands clasped above the head (Jer 2:37), were all marks of grief and shame.
went on crying Went away shrieking as…
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