Skip to content
Methodist Church Nadiad
Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”

2 Samuel 13:5 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતી2 શમુએલ ૧૩:૫
પછી યોનાદાબે તેને કહ્યું કે, તું તારા “પલંગ ઉપર સૂઈ રહે અને બીમાર હોવાનો ઢોંગ કર. જયારે તારા પિતા તને જોવા આવે, ત્યારે તેને કહેજે કે, ‘કૃપા કરીને શું તમે મારી બહેન તામારને મને ખાવાને અન્ન આપવા અને મારા માટે ભોજન બનાવવા સારુ મોકલો, કે જેથી હું તેને જોઈને તેના હાથથી ખાઉં?”
हिन्दी2 शमूएल १३:५
योनादाब ने उससे कहा, “अपने पलंग पर लेटकर बीमार बन जा; और जब तेरा पिता तुझे देखने को आए, तब उससे कहना, ‘मेरी बहन तामार आकर मुझे रोटी खिलाएँ, और भोजन को मेरे सामने बनाए, कि मैं उसको देखकर उसके हाथ से खाऊँ।’”

In context

3But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

4He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

5Jonadab said to him, “Lay down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”

6So Amnon lay down and faked being sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”

7Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go now to your brother Amnon’s house, and prepare food for him.”

Read the whole chapter

Ask us anything

Try asking

This assistant searches this website and the Bible, and uses AI for general questions about the Bible — those answers are marked. It cannot answer everything; for anything personal, please speak to our pastors.