But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of [a](A)Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very clever man. And he said to him, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:3 In 1 Sam 16:9, Shammah; in 1 Chr 2:13, Shimea

27 (A)With the one who is pure You show Yourself pure,
(B)But with the perverted You [a]show Yourself astute.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:27 As in two Heb mss and Ps 18:26; MT pretend stupidity

A (A)prudent person sees evil and hides himself,
But the naive proceed, and pay the penalty.

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14 But [a]a (A)natural person (B)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are (C)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Or an unspiritual

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