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.