Judges 9:56 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Judges 9:56 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Job 31:3

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 9:12

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them: He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

Psalm 94:23

And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And shall cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Matthew 7:2

For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.

Acts 28:4

And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.

Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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, which slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, which strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.

Judges 9:55

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

Judges 9:57

and 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.