¹² After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua,^(A) died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah,^(B) to the men who were shearing his sheep,^(C) and his friend Hirah the Adullamite^(D) went with him.

¹³ When Tamar^(A) was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”^(B)

² A certain man in Maon,^(A) who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy.^(B) He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing^(C) in Carmel.

⁴ While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

⁷ “‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat^(A) them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

Absalom Kills Amnon

²³ Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers^(A) were at Baal Hazor near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king’s sons to come there.