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2 Samuel 16:22

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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ASV

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

KJV

So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּטּ֧וּvai.ya.Tuand they pitchedH5186 →
לְאַבְשָׁל֛וֹםle.'av.sha.Lomfor AbsalomH53 →
הָאֹ֖הֶלha.'O.helthe tentH168 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
הַגָּ֑גha.Gagthe roofH1406 →
וַיָּבֹ֤אvai.ya.Vo'and he wentH935 →
אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙'av.sha.lOmAbsalomH53 →
אֶל־'el-intoH413 →
פִּֽלַגְשֵׁ֣יpi.lag.Shei[the] concubines ofH6370 →
אָבִ֔יו'a.Vivfather hisH1 →
לְעֵינֵ֖יle.'ei.Neito [the] eyes ofH5869 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →

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2 Samuel 12:11–12This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.2 Samuel 15:16Then the king set out, and his entire household followed him. But he left behind ten concubines to take care of the palace.2 Samuel 12:12You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”2 Samuel 20:3When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.Jeremiah 8:12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.Numbers 25:6Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.Ezekiel 24:7For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.Isaiah 3:9The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.Deuteronomy 27:20‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Genesis 38:26Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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