Judges 9:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:32

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.

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel declared: As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women. Then he hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.

Deuteronomy 27:25

“The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.” And all the people will say, “Amen! ”

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Judges 9:25

The citizens of Shechem rebelled against him by putting men in ambush  on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed everyone who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps  under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.’ They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Kings 2:33

The responsibility for their deaths will come back to Joab and to his descendants  for ever, but for David, his descendants, his dynasty, and his throne, there will be peace from the Lord for ever.’