²⁰ Later Judah asked his friend Hirah the Adullamite to take the young goat to the woman and to pick up the things he had given her as his guarantee. But Hirah couldn’t find her.

¹² (Herod and Pilate, who had been enemies before, became friends that day.)

³ But Amnon had a very crafty friend—his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David’s brother Shimea.^[a]

²⁰ So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.

¹⁷ “Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives.^[a] Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin.

⁹ Then Abimelech called for Abraham. “What have you done to us?” he demanded. “What crime have I committed that deserves treatment like this, making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? No one should ever do what you have done!