2 Samuel 12:11

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Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

I will raise

2 Samuel 13:1

2 Samuel 15:6

I will take

Hosea 4:13

General references

Bible References

I will raise

Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.

I will take

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.

And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;

They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

General references

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,