³² And Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, answereth and saith, `Let not my lord say, The whole of the young men, the sons of the king, they have put to death; for Amnon alone `is' dead, for by the command of Absalom it hath been appointed from the day of his humbling Tamar his sister;

⁴¹ And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning `for' my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

⁹ And Jesse causeth Shammah to pass by, and he saith, `Also on this Jehovah hath not fixed.'

³ And Amnon hath a friend, and his name `is' Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother, and Jonadab `is' a very wise man,

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

¹¹ If `from' delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter -- thou keepest back.

¹² When thou sayest, `Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath rendered to man according to his work.