Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 13:3

2 Samuel chapter 13 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

Context

v.2And Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything unto her.

v.3This passage

v.4And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art thou thus lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Samuel 13:32

    And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king’s sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.

  • Esther 6:13

    And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

  • Proverbs 19:6

    Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

  • Judges 14:20

    But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

  • 2 Samuel 14:19

    And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid;

  • James 3:15

    This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.