2 Samuel 13:6

WEB

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."

KJV

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

Commentary

So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick,.... Took the advice of his cousin Jonadab, and acted according to it: and when the king was come to see him; as he quickly did, after he had heard of his illness: Amnon said unto the king; who perhaps inquired of his appetite, whether he could eat anything, and what: I pray thee let my sister Tamar come; he calls her sister, as Jonadab had directed, the more to blind his design; though it is much that so sagacious a man as David was had not seen through it; but the notion he had of his being really ill, and the near relation between him and Tamar, forbad his entertaining the least suspicion of that kind: and make me a couple of cakes in my sight; heart cakes, as the word may be thought to signify; called so either from the form of them, such as We have with us, or from the effect of them, comforting and refreshing the heart: that I may eat at her hand; both what is made by her hand, and received from it.