⁷ So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his lord’s house, saying, ^(A)“Why do you look so sad today?”

² Therefore the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing but ^(A)sorrow of heart.”

So I became ^[a]dreadfully afraid,

Hannah’s Vow

⁸ Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not ^(A)better to you than ten sons?”

¹⁷ And He said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another as you ^[a]walk and are sad?”

⁴ And he said to him, “Why are you, the king’s son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?”

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

²⁴ So he said, “You have ^(A)taken away my ^[a]gods which I made, and the priest, and you have gone away. Now what more do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What ails you?’ ”