Absalom Murders Amnon

²³ After two full years Absalom had ^(A)sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

⁴ David heard in the wilderness that Nabal ^(A)was shearing his sheep.

¹² In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah ^(A)was comforted, he went up to ^(B)Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. ¹³ And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness and ^(A)cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

⁴ Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, ^(A)and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

²⁵ For he has gone down this day and ^(A)has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, the commanders^[a] of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ^(B)‘Long live King Adonijah!’

^19 (A)He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, ^(B)Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but ^(C)Solomon your servant he has not invited.

⁹ Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside ^(A)En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, ^(A)he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart ^(B)was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing ^(C)at all until the morning light.

⁷ I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, ^(A)and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.