Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 13:17

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17. bolt the door after her —The street door of houses in the East is always kept barred—the bolts being of wood. In the great mansions, where a porter stands at the outside, this precaution is dispensed with; and the circumstance, therefore, of a prince giving an order so unusual shows the vehement perturbation of Ammon's mind. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-18" class="com-number"