2 Samuel 13:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Some time passed. David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and David’s son Amnon fell in love with her.

Cross References

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 29:20

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

Genesis 34:3

And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

2 Samuel 13:15

Then Amnon was seized with a very great loathing for her; indeed, his loathing was even greater than the lust he had felt for her. Amnon said to her, “Get out!”

2 Samuel 13:2

Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

2 Samuel 14:27

There were born to Absalom three sons and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

1 Chronicles 3:2

the third Absalom, son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, son of Haggith;

1 Chronicles 3:9

All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,