Quotes about Tamar
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.
— Genesis 38:11
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
— Genesis 38:24
Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
— Genesis 38:6
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
— Genesis 38:13
On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
— Ezekiel 47:18
Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
— Genesis 38:19
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
— Genesis 38:25
Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
— 1 Kings 9:18
When the time came for Tamar to give birth, there were twins in her womb.
— Genesis 38:27
The southern border of Gad will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then along the Brook of Egypt and out to the Great Sea.
— Ezekiel 48:28
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
— 2 Samuel 14:27
So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.
— 2 Samuel 13:8