2 Samuel 13:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shime-ah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very crafty man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ But Amnon had a very clever friend named Jonadab, who was David's brother Shimeah’s son.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ Now Amnon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the brother of David, a very wise man.

2 Samuel 13:3 Cross References

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Genesis 38:1

It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Genesis 38:20

When Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.

2 Samuel 13:2

And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 13:32

But Jonadab the son of Shime-ah, David's brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead, for by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he forced his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13:4

And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”

2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;

2 Samuel 21:21

And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shime-i, David's brother, slew him.

1 Chronicles 2:13

Jesse was the father of Eliab his first-born, Abinadab the second, Shime-a the third,

1 Chronicles 27:32

Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe; he and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king's sons.

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it; then go merrily with the king to the dinner.” This counsel pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

Esther 6:13

And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

Proverbs 19:6

Many seek the favor of a generous man, and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

James 3:15

This wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish.

Judges 14:20

And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here.”

1 Samuel 16:9

Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the Lord chosen this one.”