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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 17:25 — A foolish son [is] a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
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Pro 10:1 |
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother. |
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Pro 15:20 |
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. |
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Pro 19:13 |
A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping. |
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2Sa 13:1 |
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. |
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2Sa 13:2 |
And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. |
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2Sa 13:3 |
But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtil man. |
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2Sa 13:4 |
And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. |
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2Sa 13:5 |
And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand. |
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Ecc 2:18 |
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. |
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Ecc 2:19 |
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 17:25," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/17/25.html>.
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