Tamar’s words are a verbal quotation from Genesis 34:7. The natural inference is that Tamar knew this passage in Genesis and wished to profit from …

Do not thou this folly. —Tamar, now left alone in the power of her half-brother, endeavours to escape by reasoning.

And she answered him, nay, my brother Which carried in it a reason sufficient for her denial, that he was her brother, an…

Henceforth, David was followed by one trouble after another. Adultery and murder were David's sins. Similar sins among his children were the beginn…