Judges 9:56 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁶ Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁶ Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁶ Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech which he had done to his father [Gideon] by slaying his seventy brothers;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁶ Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;

Common English Bible

⁵⁶ Thus God paid back Abimelech for the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁶ And so did God repay the evil that Abimelech had done against his father by killing his seventy brothers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁶ And God repaid the evil, that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

Judges 9:56 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

Job 31:3

Does not calamity befall the unrighteous and disaster the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 11:6

On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Psalm 94:23

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Matthew 7:2

For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.

Judges 9:24

This happened so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged and their blood be laid on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Judges 9:55

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

Judges 9:57

and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.