⁷ So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody^(A) with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”^(B)

² so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.”

I was very much afraid,

⁸ Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?^(A)”

¹⁷ He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast.

⁴ He asked Amnon, “Why do you, the king’s son, look so haggard morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?”

Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

²⁴ He replied, “You took^(A) the gods I made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you ask, ‘What’s the matter with you?’”