2 Samuel 13:12
2 Samuel chapter 13 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
Context
v.11And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
v.12This passage
v.13And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 20:17
And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
- Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
- Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
- Judges 20:6
And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
- Proverbs 7:7
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
- Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this folly.