And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sons, who all died before their father, chap. xviii. 18.
Thamar, in memory of his sister; (Abulensis) or this Thamar received the name from her aunt, who resided with Absalom. (Menochius)
Some Greek and Latin copies add, that she was married to Roboam, the son of Solomon, by whom he had Abias. But this addition is of no authority, and can hardly be reconciled with chronology. We read that Roboam espoused Maaca, the daughter of Absalom; (2 Paralipomenon xi. 20.) but she might be only his grand-daughter, by Thamar. (Calmet)
Josephus had adopted this addition. (Haydock)
