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So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”
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Verse 6. Messes. Hebrew “cakes, or cordials;” what which refresh the heart, and give an appetite. The queen of Perdiccas, of Macedon, baked bread for her servants. Herod. viii. 137. Genesis 18:6.
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