Next Jesse had Shammah pass by. And he said, “The Lord has not chosen this one, either.”
But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very clever man.
Ben-abinadab in all the hills of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);
and Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab, the second, Shimea, the third,
So Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.”
The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who had gone into the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him, Abinadab, and the third, Shammah.