Then Jesse made Shammah pass by and again he said, “Neither has Adonai chosen this one.”
However, Amnon had a friend named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother, and Jonadab was a very shrewd man.
Ben-Abinadab in all the height of Dor (Taphath, Solomon’s daughter was his wife);
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab was second, Shimea third,
Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “Adonai has not chosen any of these.”
Now the three oldest sons of Jesse had already left and gone after Saul to the battle; the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.