Quotes about Temptation
Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
— 2 Samuel 11:4
“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
— 2 Samuel 11:12
Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.
— 2 Samuel 11:13
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
— 2 Samuel 13:1
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
— 2 Samuel 13:6
Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
— 2 Samuel 13:9
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
— 2 Samuel 13:11
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
— 1 Kings 11:1
He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
— 1 Kings 11:3
Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
— 1 Kings 11:10
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
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