2 Samuel 16:8

New Living Translation

“The Lord is paying you back for all the bloodshed in Saul’s clan. You stole his throne, and now the Lord has given it to your son Absalom. At last you will taste some of your own medicine, for you are a murderer!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:16

“You have condemned yourself,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed the Lord’s anointed one.”

2 Samuel 19:19

“My lord the king, please forgive me,” he pleaded. “Forget the terrible thing your servant did when you left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

2 Samuel 19:21

Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shimei should die, for he cursed the Lord’s anointed king!”

2 Samuel 21:1

There was a famine during David’s reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said, “The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 21:9

The men of Gibeon executed them on the mountain before the Lord. So all seven of them died together at the beginning of the barley harvest.

1 Kings 2:8

“And remember Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin. He cursed me with a terrible curse as I was fleeing to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, I swore by the Lord that I would not kill him.

Psalm 3:2

So many are saying, “God will never rescue him!” Interlude

Psalm 4:2

How long will you people ruin my reputation? How long will you make groundless accusations? How long will you continue your lies? Interlude

Psalm 55:3

My enemies shout at me, making loud and wicked threats. They bring trouble on me and angrily hunt me down.

Psalm 7:4

if I have betrayed a friend or plundered my enemy without cause,

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.

Revelation 16:6

Since they shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is their just reward.”

Judges 9:24

God was punishing Abimelech for murdering Gideon’s seventy sons, and the citizens of Shechem for supporting him in this treachery of murdering his brothers.