2 Samuel 16:8

Modern English Version

The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. And the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are taken in your own evil, because you are a man of blood.”

Cross References

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 19:19

and he said to the king, “Do not regard me as guilty, my lord, or remember how your servant went astray the day when my lord the king went out from Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

2 Samuel 19:21

Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the anointed of the Lord?”

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David called upon the Lord. The Lord said, “There is blood guilt upon Saul and upon his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:9

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord; the seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

1 Kings 2:8

“There is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

Psalm 3:2

Many are saying about my life, “There is no help for him in God.”    Selah

Psalm 4:2

O people, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies?    Selah

Psalm 55:3

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they bring down trouble upon me, and in anger they hate me.

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me, or have delivered my adversary without cause,

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse without cause shall not alight.

Revelation 16:6

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”

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.