Bible Strands
2 Samuel 13:17
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Amnon speaks to his personal attendant immediately after refusing Tamar’s plea, issuing a command to remove her from his presence.
The words — וַ/יִּקְרָ֗א (va/i.yik.Ra') translates as he summoned, and שִׁלְחוּ (shil.chu) means send away, capturing the abrupt shift from refusal to execution of orders.
The thread — The command to cast a woman out and secure a door echoes the narrative pattern of royal households using attendants to enforce isolation, as seen in 2 Samuel 13:18 and the parallel household enforcement in 2 Kings 9:32.
Why it lands — It demands recognition of how institutional power operates through delegated violence, forcing the reader to confront the mechanics of rejection without softening the text’s stark sequence of commands.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.