Quotes about Deception
Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
- 2 Samuel 13:9
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
- 2 Samuel 13:10
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
- 2 Samuel 13:11
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
- 2 Samuel 13:17
So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
- 2 Samuel 13:18
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:20
Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
- 2 Samuel 13:28
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.
- 2 Samuel 13:32
So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
- 2 Samuel 13:35
Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.
- 2 Samuel 14:3
Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
- 2 Samuel 15:5
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 15:6