2 Samuel 13:35

Jonadab said to the king, “Aha! What I told you is true. Your other sons are alive and have come!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

In Context

34In the meantime, Absalom ran away. Just then, the soldier/sentry who was standing on the city wall saw a large crowd of people coming down the hill along the road from Horonaim. He ran and told the king what he had seen.

36And as soon as he said that, David’s sons came in. They all started crying, and David and all his officials also cried very much.

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Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 13:31-39

Amnon's Death; Absalom's Flight. ( b. c. 1032.) 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. 31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent. 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by… Read the whole commentary →

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