OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 13:16

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She said to him, “Not so, because this great wrong in sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me!” But he would not listen to her.

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Verse 16. Greater, as being more public; ( Tirinus.) and all would think her guilty of some horrible misdemeanor. Bible.—It made the divulging of the crime in some degree necessary. Menochius.—Unhappy woman! why did she not cry out, at least, before the perpetration of the act, as the law directed? Deuteronomy 22:24. Salien, A. 3000.

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