Genesis 38:12

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Genesis 38:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

11 Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

14 she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

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And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

2 Samuel 13:39

And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.

Genesis 31:19

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

1 Samuel 25:4

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

1 Samuel 25:5

So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

1 Samuel 25:6

and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.

1 Samuel 25:7

Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:8

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.’”

1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

2 Samuel 13:24

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

2 Samuel 13:25

“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 13:26

“If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.

2 Samuel 13:27

But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”

2 Samuel 13:29

So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.

Genesis 38:1

About that time, Judah left his brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.

Joshua 15:10

The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

Joshua 15:35

Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

Joshua 15:37

Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,

Joshua 19:43

Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

Judges 14:1

One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.