2 Samuel 14:27
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New International Version (©2011)
Three sons and a daughter were born to Absalom. His daughter's name was Tamar, and she became a beautiful woman.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He had three sons and one daughter. His daughter's name was Tamar, and she was very beautiful.

English Standard Version (©2001)
There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of beautiful appearance.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Absalom fathered three sons and one daughter, whom he named Tamar. She was a beautiful woman, both in form and appearance.

NET Bible (©2006)
Absalom had three sons and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a very attractive woman.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Absalom had three sons and one daughter. His daughter Tamar was a beautiful woman.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

American King James Version
And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

American Standard Version
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were born to Absalom three sons: and one daughter, whose, name was Thamar, and she was very beautiful.

Darby Bible Translation
And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful countenance.

English Revised Version
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

Webster's Bible Translation
And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

World English Bible
To Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful face.

Young's Literal Translation
And there are born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter, and her name is Tamar; she was a woman of a fair appearance.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:25-27 Nothing is said of Absalom's wisdom and piety. All here said of him is, that he was very handsome. A poor commendation for a man that had nothing else in him valuable. Many a polluted, deformed soul dwells in a fair and comely body. And we read that he had a very fine head of hair. It was a burden to him, but he would not cut it as long as he could bear the weight. That which feeds and gratifies pride, is not complained of, though uneasy. May the Lord grant us the beauty of holiness, and the adorning of a meek and quiet spirit! Only those who fear God are truly happy.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - Three sons. Their names are not given, because they died early (see 2 Samuel 18:18). Of his daughter Tamar, named after her aunt, and, like her, possessed of great beauty, the Septuagint adds that she became the wife of Rehoboam, and mother of Abijah. In 1 Kings 15:2 we are told that Abijah's mother was "Maachah the daughter of Abishalom;" and in 2 Chronicles 13:2 that her name was "Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah." We thus gather that Tamar married Uriel, and that it was the granddaughter of Absalom who became Rehoboam's queen. It is strictly in accordance with Hebrew custom to call Absalom's granddaughter his daughter, and, as Uriel was a man of no political importance, he is passed over, as the narrator's object was to show that Abijah's mother was sprung from the handsome and notorious son of David (see also 2 Chronicles 11:20, 21).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And unto Absalom there were born three sons,.... Who very probably died young; and the rather it may be thought so, since their names are not given, and more especially since it is said that Absalom had no sons, and therefore erected a pillar to keep up the remembrance of his name; unless it can be thought that that was set up before he had any sons, which is not so likely; see 2 Samuel 18:18,

and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; and whom he named after his sister Tamar, who was ravished by Amnon; the Septuagint version in some copies adds,"and she became the wife of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, and bore to him Abia;''and so says Josephus (b); see 1 Kings 15:22,

she was a woman of a fair countenance; as was her aunt, after whom she was named, 2 Samuel 13:1; by this it appears that she lived to a woman's estate, though the sons of Absalom died young.

(b) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 8. sect. 5.)

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Absalom's Return to Jerusalem
…25But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. 26And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight. 27And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

2 Samuel 13:1 In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David.
2 Samuel 18:18 During his lifetime Absalom had taken a pillar and erected it in the King's Valley as a monument to himself, for he thought, "I have no son to carry on the memory of my name." He named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom's Monument to this day.