12She answered him, |No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.


In Context

9 She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, |Have all men leave me.| Every man went out from him.

10 Amnon said to Tamar, |Bring the food into the room, that I may eat from your hand.| Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the room to Amnon her brother.

11 When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, |Come, lie with me, my sister!|

12 She answered him, |No, my brother, do not force me! For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Don't you do this folly.

13 I, where would I carry my shame? And as for you, you will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.|

14 However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

2 Samuel 13:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

13:12"Don't, my brother!" she said to him. "Don't force me. Such a thing should not be done in Israel! Don't do this wicked thing.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:12And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

13:12She 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

13:12And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12And she said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me; for no such thing is done in Israel: do not this infamy.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

13:12And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

13:12And she saith to him, 'Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it is not done so in Israel; do not this folly.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

13:12And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not you this folly.