Bible Cross References
foolish
Proverbs 10:1
The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son [is] the grief of his mother.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother.
Proverbs 17:21
He who begets a scoffer [does so] to his sorrow, And the father of a fool has no joy.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, And bitterness to her who bore him.
2 Samuel 13:1-18
1
After this Absalom the son of David had a lovely sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
2
Amnon was so distressed over his sister Tamar that he became sick; for she [was] a virgin. And it was improper for Amnon to do anything to her.
3
But Amnon had a friend whose name [was] Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother. Now Jonadab [was] a very crafty man.
4
And he said to him, "Why [are] you, the king's son, becoming thinner day after day? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
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So Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come and give me food, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see [it] and eat it from her hand.' "
6
Then Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sister come and make a couple of cakes for me in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."
7
And David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Now go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."
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So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded [it,] made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
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And she took the pan and placed [them] out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Have everyone go out from me." And they all went out from him.
10
Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought [them] to Amnon her brother in the bedroom.
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Now when she had brought [them] to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."
12
And she answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
13
"And I, where could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."
14
However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her.
15
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, 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!"
16
So she said to him, "No, indeed! This evil of sending me away [is] worse than the other that you did to me." But he would not listen to her.
17
Then he called his servant who attended him, and said, "Here! Put this [woman] out, away from me, and bolt the door behind her."
18
Now she had on a robe of many colors, for the king's virgin daughters wore such apparel. And his servant put her out and bolted the door behind her.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also [is] vanity.
the contentions
Proverbs 21:9
Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21:19
Better to dwell in the wilderness, Than with a contentious and angry woman.
Proverbs 25:24
[It is] better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 27:15
A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;
Job 14:19
[As] water wears away stones, [And as] torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man.