2 Samuel 13:3

New Living Translation

But Amnon had a very crafty friend—his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David’s brother Shimea.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

Genesis 38:1

About this time, Judah left home and moved to Adullam, where he stayed with a man named Hirah.

Genesis 38:20

Later Judah asked his friend Hirah the Adullamite to take the young goat to the woman and to pick up the things he had given her as his guarantee. But Hirah couldn’t find her.

2 Samuel 13:2

Amnon became so obsessed with Tamar that he became ill. She was a virgin, and Amnon thought he could never have her.

2 Samuel 13:32

But just then Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimea, arrived and said, “No, don’t believe that all the king’s sons have been killed! It was only Amnon! Absalom has been plotting this ever since Amnon raped his sister Tamar.

2 Samuel 13:4

One day Jonadab said to Amnon, “What’s the trouble? Why should the son of a king look so dejected morning after morning?” So Amnon told him, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

2 Samuel 14:2

So he sent for a woman from Tekoa who had a reputation for great wisdom. He said to her, “Pretend you are in mourning; wear mourning clothes and don’t put on lotions. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

2 Samuel 21:21

But when he defied and taunted Israel, he was killed by Jonathan, the son of David’s brother Shimea.

1 Chronicles 2:13

Jesse’s first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea,

1 Chronicles 27:32

Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a wise counselor to the king, a man of great insight, and a scribe. Jehiel the Hacmonite was responsible for teaching the king’s sons.

Esther 5:10

However, he restrained himself and went on home. Then Haman gathered together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,

Esther 5:14

So Haman’s wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, “Set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet tall, and in the morning ask the king to impale Mordecai on it. When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet with the king.” This pleased Haman, and he ordered the pole set up.

Esther 6:13

When Haman told his wife, Zeresh, and all his friends what had happened, his wise advisers and his wife said, “Since Mordecai—this man who has humiliated you—is of Jewish birth, you will never succeed in your plans against him. It will be fatal to continue opposing him.”

Proverbs 19:6

Many seek favors from a ruler; everyone is the friend of a person who gives gifts!

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

James 3:15

For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

Judges 14:20

So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.

1 Samuel 16:11

Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. “But he’s out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.” “Send for him at once,” Samuel said. “We will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”

1 Samuel 16:9

Next Jesse summoned Shimea, but Samuel said, “Neither is this the one the Lord has chosen.”