Quotes about Deception
“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
— 2 Samuel 20:9
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
— 1 Kings 3:20
The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”
— 1 Kings 3:21
After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
— 1 Kings 12:28
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
— 1 Kings 13:18
And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
— 1 Kings 13:23
and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.
— 1 Kings 14:2
Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
— 1 Kings 19:1
and the prophet went and waited on the road for the king, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
— 1 Kings 20:38
Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
— 1 Kings 21:8
So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
— 1 Kings 21:11
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
— 1 Kings 21:25