Shammah
Also called Shimeah, Shimma
Belongs to: Tribe of Judah
Father: Jesse
Children: Jonadab
Siblings: Abinadab, David, Eliab, Elihu, Nethaneel, Ozem, Raddai
Several people in the Bible have this name. The verses below may mix them up.
Mentioned in 5 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.
Where Shammah is mentioned
1 Chronicles 2:13–14
13 Jesse was the father of Eliab his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,
14 Nethanel fourth, Raddai fifth,
Read in context1 Samuel 16:9
Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”
Read in context1 Samuel 17:13
The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
Read in context2 Samuel 13:3–4
3 Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
4 so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
Read in context2 Samuel 13:32
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
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