2 Samuel 13:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O son of the king? Why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Amnon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom.

Cross References

Luke 12:32

Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Jeremiah 8:12

They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion and they have not known how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 3:9

The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it. Woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Leviticus 20:17

If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 18:9

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy sister by father or by mother: whether born at home or abroad.

1 Kings 21:7

Then Jezabel his wife said to him: Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer. I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrahelite.

2 Samuel 13:3

Now Amnon had a friend, named Jonadab the son of Semmaa the brother of David, a very wise man.

2 Samuel 13:5

And Jonadab said to him: Lie down upon thy bed, and feign thyself sick; and when thy father shall come to visit thee, say to him: Let my sister Thamar, I pray thee, come to me, to give me to eat, and to make me a mess, that I may eat it at her hand.

1 Kings 21:5

And Jezabel his wife went in to him, and said to him: What is the matter that thy soul is so grieved? And why eatest thou no bread?