2 Samuel 13:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.

Cross References

Genesis 29:18

Jacob loved Rachel; and 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 the love he had for her.

Genesis 34:3

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

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2

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

2 Samuel 13:15

Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone.”

2 Samuel 13:2

And 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

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

1 Chronicles 3:2

the third Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, whose mother was 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;