Judges 9:56
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.”
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“In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 9:56 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 9:24in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
- Job 31:3Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
- Psalms 9:12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Psalms 94:23He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
- Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- Matthew 7:2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
- Acts 28:4When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
- Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
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