Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
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Gill's Exposition
Then David sent home to Tamar,.... Who perhaps was not in the king's palace, but at her brother Absalom's house, Sa2 13:20,
saying, go now to thy brother Amnon's house; who also had a separate house…
Make me cakes ... a pan - The words here used occur nowhere else, and the etymology is doubtful. Some particular kind of cake or pudding is meant 2Sa 13:8, called a לביבה lābı̂ybâh; according to…
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
home Into the house: the inner part of the palace, where the women's apartments were.
to thy brother Amnon's house Cp. 2Sa 13:13. Each of the royal princes evidently had a separate house.