Judges 9:56

Judges chapter 9 · verse 56 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.55And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

v.56This passage

v.57and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 9:12
For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.
Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Judges 9:24
that the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.
Job 31:3
Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.