2 Samuel 13:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill, and when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat and prepare the food in my sight, so that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’ ” ⁶ So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”^(A)

⁷ Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare food for him.”