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2 Samuel 14:27
2 Samuel 14:27 is verse 27 of 2 Samuel chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
King James Version
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
World English Bible
Three sons were born to Absalom, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman with a beautiful face.
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2 Samuel 14:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 Now there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.
26 And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
27 Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
28 Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.
29 Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 18:18During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
Job 18:16The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.
Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
Isaiah 14:22“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
2 Samuel 13:1After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.