Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
2 Samuel 13:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision And Thamar came to the house of Amnon her brother: but he was laid down: and she took meal and tempered it: and dissolving it in his sight she made little messes. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very crafty man. 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. Common English Bible But Amnon had a very clever friend named Jonadab, who was David's brother Shimeah’s son. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, the brother of David: a very prudent man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now Amnon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the brother of David, a very wise man. |
Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise?
And he saw there the daughter of a man of Chanaan, called Sue: and taking her to wife, he went in unto her.
1 asked the men of that place : Where is the woman that sat in the cross way? And when they all made answer: There was no harlot in this place,
Then David sent home to Thamar, saying: Come to the house of thy brother Amnon, and make him a mess.
7 But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.
And taking what she had boiled, she poured it out, and set it before him, but he would not eat: and Amnon said: Put out all persons from me. And when they had put all persons out,
And behold the whole kindred rising against thy handmaid, saith: Deliver him that hath slain his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and that we may destroy the heir: and they seek to quench my spark which is left, and will leave my husband no name, nor remainder upon the earth.
I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
8 And Caleb the son of Hesron took a wife named Azuba, of whom he had Jerioth: and her sons were Jaser, and Sobab, and Ardon.
And God said to me: Thou shalt not build a house to my name: because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.
That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
3 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.
0 But when thou art spoiled what wilt thou do? though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, and paintest thy eyes with stibic stone, thou shalt dress thyself out in vain: thy lovers have despised thee, they will seek thy life.
Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.
But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
And setting them on fire he let the foxes go, that they might run about hither and thither. And they presently went into the standing corn of the Philistines. Which being set on fire, both the corn that was already carried together, and that which was yet standing, was all burnt, insomuch, that the flame consumed also the vineyards and the oliveyards.
6 Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayest bear it more easily.
4 But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.