1 Kings 2:32

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord will bring back his own blood on his head because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, without my father David’s knowledge. With his sword, Joab murdered Abner  son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa  son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.

Cross References

Judges 9:24

so that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood would be avenged on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him kill his brothers.

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,  have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab  prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers,  your father’s family, who were better than you,

Judges 9:57

God also brought back to the men of Shechem all their evil.  So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

1 Kings 2:5

‘You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me  and what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s army, Abner son of Ner  and Amasa son of Jether.  He murdered them in a time of peace to avenge blood shed in war. He spilled that blood on his own waistband and on the sandals of his feet.

Esther 1:19

‘If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be revoked:  Vashti is not to enter King Ahasuerus’s presence, and her royal position is to be given to another woman who is more worthy than she.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said, ‘You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David.  Therefore, the Lord has brought back your evil on your head,

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had appointed Amasa  over the army in Joab’s place. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra  the Israelite;  , Ithra had married Abigail daughter of Nahash.  Abigail was a sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from you and purge you from the earth? ’

2 Samuel 3:37

On that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the killing of Abner son of Ner.

1 Samuel 15:28

Samuel said to him, ‘The Lord has torn the kingship of Israel away from you today  and has given it to your neighbour who is better than you.

Genesis 4:11

So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds human blood, by humans his blood will be shed, for God made humans in his image.

Genesis 42:22

But Reuben replied, ‘Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy?  But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood! ’

2 Samuel 1:16

For David had said to the Amalekite, ‘Your blood is on your own head  because your own mouth testified against you by saying, “I killed the Lord’s anointed.” ’

2 Samuel 3:39

As for me, even though I am the anointed king, I have little power today. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me.  May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil! ’

2 Chronicles 21:14

the Lord is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction.

Numbers 32:23

But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.

2 Samuel 3:29

May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease,  or a man who can only work a spindle,  or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’

1 Kings 8:32

may you hear in heaven and act. May you judge your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Ezekiel 17:19

‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: As I live, I will bring down on his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.