2 Samuel 13:5
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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- Mark 6:24–25 Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.” At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”
- Psalm 50:18–19 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
- Proverbs 19:27 If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.