New Revised Standard Version
Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” The king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”

Contemporary English Version
Absalom said, "If you won't go, at least let my brother Amnon come with us." David asked, "Why should he go with you?"

New American Bible
Absalom then said, “If not you, then please let my brother Amnon come with us.” The king asked him, “Why should he go with you?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother Ammon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not necessary that he should go with thee.

And Absalom said: If thou wilt not come, at least let my brother Ammon, I beseech thee, come with us. And the king said to him: It is not necessary that he should go with thee.

2 Samuel 3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate, to speak to him treacherously: and he stabbed him there in the groin, and he died, in revenge of the blood of Asael his brother.

2 Samuel 11:13-15 And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house. . . .

2 Samuel 20:9 And Joab said to Amasa: God save thee, my brother. And he took Amasa by the chin with his right hand to kiss him.

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.