1. David's son Absalom had a beautiful unmarried sister named Tamar. Amnon, another of David's sons, fell in love with her.
2. He was so much in love with her that he became ill, because it seemed impossible for him to have her; as a virgin, she was kept from meeting men.
3. But he had a friend, a very shrewd man named Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shammah.
4. Jonadab said to Amnon, “You are the king's son, yet day after day I see you looking sad. What's the matter?”“I'm in love with Tamar, the sister of my half-brother Absalom,” he answered.