1 Kings 2:32

Modern English Version

The Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, for he attacked two men more righteous and better than he —Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah—and killed them with the sword when my father David was unaware.

Cross References

Genesis 4:11

Now you are cursed from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Therefore, his blood is now required of us.”

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in His own image.

2 Samuel 1:16

But David said to him, “Your blood is upon your own head, since your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I put an end to the anointed of the Lord.’ ”

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had placed Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Jether the Ishmaelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

2 Samuel 3:29

May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house. May the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks food.”

2 Samuel 3:37

That very day, all of the people, all of Israel, understood that it was not ordered from the king to have Abner the son of Ner killed.

2 Samuel 3:39

Today, I am weak, even if an anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too strong for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more so, when guilty men have slain an innocent man in his own house on his own bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand and wipe you from the earth?”

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, “You know all the wickedness in your heart and what you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness on your own head.

1 Kings 2:5

“Moreover, you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the army of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, shedding the blood of war in a time of peace. He spilled their blood on the belt that was around his waist and on the shoes of his feet.

1 Kings 8:32

then may You hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father’s house, who were better than you,

2 Chronicles 21:14

behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions;

Esther 1:19

“If it pleases the king, let a royal decree be sent by him, and let it be written in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it may not be altered, that Vashti can never enter into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and that the king will give her royal position to another woman who is better than she.

Psalm 7:16

His mischief will return on his own head; his violence will descend on the crown of his own head.

Psalm 7:17

I will thank the Lord according to His righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

Ezekiel 17:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised and My covenant that he has broken, I will inflict upon his own head.

Numbers 32:23

“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Judges 9:24

so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal and their blood might come back upon Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who empowered him to kill his brothers.

Judges 9:57

God also repaid the evil deeds of the men of Shechem, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came upon them.

1 Samuel 15:28

Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.