Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionBut when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GWhen King Dawid heard all these things, he was very angry — but he did not grieve the spirit of his son Amnon, for he loved him, because he was his firstborn.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageWhen King David heard all of this, he was furious — but he did not rebuke or discipline his son Amnon, because he loved him, for Amnon was his firstborn.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleWhen King David heard all this, he was furious.
Footnotes
The clause "because he loved him, for he was his firstborn" is present in the Septuagint (LXX) and the Dead Sea Scroll fragment 4QSamᵃ but absent from the standard Masoretic text. Most modern critical translations include it, as it explains David's catastrophic failure of justice — the failure that seeds everything that follows in the Absalom narrative. *Lo itsav et ruach* — "he did not wound/grieve the spirit of" — is a striking idiom: David will not even disturb Amnon's inner ease. He is enraged but acts on nothing.
