And Amnon was so sore vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar: for she was a [a]virgin, and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

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

Who said unto him, Why art thou the king’s son, so lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? Then Amnon answered him, I love Tamar my brother Absalom’s sister.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:2 And therefore kept in her father’s house, as virgins were accustomed.

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