Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, a son of David’s brother Shimeah.(A) Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

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Now Amnon had an adviser named Jonadab son of Shimeah,(A) David’s brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

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But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

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20 Joab your servant has done this to address the issue indirectly,[a] but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, knowing everything on earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:20 Lit to go around the face of the matter

20 Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom(A) like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.(B)

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20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

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16 a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here and let me speak with him.”

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16 a wise woman(A) called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab to come here so I can speak to him.”

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16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

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13 He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.(A)

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13 He catches the wise(A) in their craftiness,(B)
    and the schemes of the wily are swept away.(C)

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13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

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