1 Kings 8:32

English Standard Version 2016

then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:1

“If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:13

lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

Romans 2:13

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

Ezekiel 18:30

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.

Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 1:31

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.

Numbers 5:27

And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.

Exodus 23:7

Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

2 Samuel 22:21

“The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.

Psalm 18:25

With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;

Isaiah 45:25

In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”

1 Samuel 2:25

If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2:33

So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.”

Esther 9:25

But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalm 7:9

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

Ezekiel 9:10

As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”