And he said to him, Why are you, the king’s son, so low morning by morning? Will you not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.
And Jonadab said to him, Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And your father will come in to see you, and you shall say to him, Please let my sister Tamar come in and give me food to eat. And she shall make the food before my eyes, so that I may see and may eat from her hand.
And his wife Jezebel said to him, Do you now rule over Israel? Rise up, eat food and let your heart be good. I will give to you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
The look of their faces answers against them; they have declared their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt an evil way to themselves.
Were they ashamed when they had made an abomination? They were not even at all ashamed, and they did not know how to blush. So they shall fall among those who fall. In the time that they rebel they will wither, says Jehovah.
You shall not bare your sister’s nakedness, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, born at home, or born away; you shall not bare their nakedness.
And if a man takes his sister, the daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he has seen her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shame. And they shall be cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; he has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Both palms are on evil, to do it well. The ruler is asking for a bribe, also the judge. And the great man speaks the lust of his soul; he acts, and they weave it together.