Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 13:36
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking,…. As soon as the above words were out of his mouth:
that, behold, the king’s sons came: into the palace, and into the apartment where the king was:
and lifted up their voice and wept; not being able to tell the sorrowful news with their mouths, but declared it by gestures:
and the king also and all his servants wept very sore; they joined the king’s sons in weeping, and were the more moved to it by their weeping, and the rather, since hereby the news of Amnon’s murder was confirmed.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Jonadab had hardly said this when the king’s sons arrived and wept aloud, sc., as they related what had occurred; whereupon the king and all his retainers broke out in loud weeping.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
2Sa 13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.
Ver. 36. And the king also wept very sore.] Heb., With a great weeping greatly: this was the product of his sweet sin with Bathsheba. Macrobius telleth us that the Romans placed the image of Angeronia upon the altar of Volupia. And the poets feign that pleasure and pain once accused one another before Jupiter: and that whenas he could not decide the controversies between them, be tied them together with a chain of adamant, and so made them inseparable companions.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
wept very sore. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6) = “wept with a great weeping “.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
very sore: Heb. with a great weeping greatly, 2Sa 13:15, *marg. 2Sa 12:21, 2Sa 18:33
Reciprocal: 1Sa 1:10 – wept sore Job 2:12 – their voice