1 Kings 2:33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne there shall be peace from the Lord forevermore.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:22

Then Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to wrong the boy? But you would not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”

2 Samuel 14:9

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.”

1 Kings 2:32

The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than he: Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to my father David, so the Lord will bring back your evil on your own head.

1 Kings 8:32

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.

1 Chronicles 17:27

therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord, have blessed and are blessed forever.”

Psalm 101:8

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Psalm 132:12

If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I shall teach them, their sons also, forevermore, shall sit on your throne.”

Psalm 21:4

He asked you for life; you gave it to him— length of days forever and ever.

Psalm 89:29

I will establish his line forever and his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Proverbs 25:5

take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Ezekiel 17:19

Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke.

Numbers 32:23

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

Matthew 27:25

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

Luke 2:14

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favors!”

Acts 18:6

When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”

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.