1 Kings 2:33

Modern English Version

Therefore their blood shall return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed forever, but upon David and upon his seed and upon his house and upon his throne shall the peace of the Lord rest forever.”

Cross References

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.”

2 Samuel 14:9

The Tekoan woman responded to the king, “May guilt rest upon me and the house of my father, my lord the king, and may the king and his throne be blameless.”

1 Kings 2:32

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.

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 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 Kings 5:27

The leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence, leprous like snow.

1 Chronicles 17:27

Now, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your servant that it may be forever before You. For You, O  Lord, have blessed it, and it shall be blessed forever.”

Psalm 101:8

Early will I destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Psalm 132:12

If your sons will keep My covenant and My testimony which I shall teach them, their sons also, forevermore, shall sit upon your throne.”

Psalm 21:4

He asked life of You, and You gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.

Psalm 89:29

His descendants also will I establish forever and his throne as the days of heaven.

Proverbs 25:5

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

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.

Matthew 27:25

Then all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Luke 2:14

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men.”

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads. I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

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.