2 Samuel 16:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The Lord has avenged on all of you 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. See, disaster has overtaken you; for you are a man of blood.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord's anointed.’ ”

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to the king, “May my lord not hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; may the king not bear it in mind.

2 Samuel 19:21

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

2 Samuel 21:1

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

2 Samuel 21:9

he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

1 Kings 2:8

There is also with you Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a terrible curse on 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, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

Psalm 3:2

many are saying to me, “There is no help for you in God.” Selah

Psalm 4:2

How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? Selah

Psalm 55:3

by the noise of the enemy, because of the clamor of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.

Psalm 7:4

if I have repaid my ally with harm or plundered my foe without cause,

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Revelation 16:6

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

Judges 9:24

This happened so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged and their blood be laid on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.