Quotes about Consequences
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
- 2 Samuel 12:11
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:2
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
Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”
- 2 Samuel 13:13
But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.
- 2 Samuel 13:14
“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:16
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
- 2 Samuel 13:17
When King David heard all this, he was furious.
- 2 Samuel 13:21
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
And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
- 2 Samuel 14:6
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
- 2 Samuel 16:8
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
- 2 Samuel 16:21