2 Samuel 16:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul in whose place you became king, and the Lord has handed the kingdom over to your son Absalom. Look, you are in trouble because you’re a man of bloodshed! ’

Cross References

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.” ’

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.

Revelation 16:6

Because they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it!

2 Samuel 21:9

and handed them over to the Gibeonites. They hanged  them on the hill in the presence of the Lord; the seven of them died together. They were executed in the first days of the harvest at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 19:21

Abishai son of Zeruiah asked, ‘Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed? ’

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David enquired  of the Lord. The Lord answered, ‘It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.’

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to him, ‘My lord, don’t hold me guilty, and don’t remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem.  May the king not take it to heart.

1 Kings 2:8

‘Keep an eye on Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim who is with you. He uttered malicious curses against me the day I went to Mahanaim.  But he came down to meet me at the River Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, “I will never kill you with the sword.”

Proverbs 26:2

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.