Judges 9:56

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

Thus God {H430} rendered {H7725} the wickedness {H7451} of Abimelech {H40}, which he did {H6213} unto his father {H1}, in slaying {H2026} his seventy {H7657} brethren {H251}:

This is how God paid back Avimelekh for the wrong he did to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 94:23 (4 votes)

    And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.

  • Proverbs 5:22 (3 votes)

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  • Judges 9:24 (3 votes)

    That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.

  • Psalms 58:10 (2 votes)

    The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

  • Psalms 58:11 (2 votes)

    So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

  • Matthew 7:2 (2 votes)

    For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

  • Revelation 19:20 (2 votes)

    And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.