2 Samuel 13:4

And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

And he said {H559} unto him, Why art thou, being the king's {H4428} son {H1121}, lean {H1800} from day {H1242} to day {H1242}? wilt thou not tell {H5046} me? And Amnon {H550} said {H559} unto him, I love {H157} Tamar {H8559}, my brother {H251} Absalom's {H53} sister {H269}.

He asked him, "Why, son of the king, are you growing thinner every day? Won't you tell me?"Amnon answered him, "I'm in love with Tamar, my brother Avshalom's sister."

so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art thou thus lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.

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Cross-References

  • Esther 5:13 (2 votes)

    Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

  • Esther 5:14 (2 votes)

    Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

  • Luke 12:32 (2 votes)

    Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

  • Jeremiah 8:12 (2 votes)

    Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

  • Leviticus 20:17 (2 votes)

    And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it [is] a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Leviticus 18:9 (2 votes)

    The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

  • Micah 7:3 (2 votes)

    That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.