Shimeah שִׁמְעָה

David's brother. Shimeah (also known as Shimei, Shammah, or Shimea) was a brother of King David and the father of Jonadab (or 'Jonathan').

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Also called Shimei, Shammah, Shimea, Shimma.

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Where Shimeah appears

2 Samuel (3), 1 Samuel (2), 1 Chronicles (2)

Key verses

• 1 Samuel 16:9 first mention — Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
• 1 Samuel 17:13 — And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
• 2 Samuel 13:3 — But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
• 2 Samuel 13:32 — 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 the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
• 2 Samuel 21:21 — And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.
• 1 Chronicles 2:13 — And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,
• 1 Chronicles 20:7 — But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Verse text: King James Version.