1 Kings 2:32

Tree of Life Version

Thus Adonai will return his blood on his own head, because he struck down 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—and killed them with the sword, without my father David’s knowledge.

Cross References

Genesis 4:11

So now, cursed are you from the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 42:22

Reuben answered them and said, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But you didn’t listen. Now, see how his blood is now being accounted for.”

Genesis 9:6

The one who sheds human blood, by a human will his blood be shed, for in God’s image He made humanity.

2 Samuel 1:16

David said to him, “Your blood is on your own head, for your mouth testified against you saying, ‘I killed Adonai’s anointed.’”

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. (Now Amasa was son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone to Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 3:29

May it whirl on Joab’s head and on all his father’s house. May the house of Joab never be without someone with discharge or tza'arat, lame or one fallen by the sword or one who lacks food.”

2 Samuel 3:37

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not the king’s will to kill Abner son of Ner.

2 Samuel 3:39

So today I am vulnerable, even though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me to handle. May Adonai reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house and on his bed! Should I not now require his blood from your hands and rid the earth of you?”

1 Kings 2:44

The king added to Shimei: “You know all the evil, which your heart should acknowledge, that you did to my father David. Therefore Adonai will return your evil on your own head.

1 Kings 2:5

“Moreover, you also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, whom he killed, shedding the blood of war in peacetime, and putting the blood of war on his waistband and on his sandals on his feet.

1 Kings 8:32

then hear from 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 Chronicles 21:13

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, leading Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into prostitution just as the house of Ahab committed prostitution and you have also slain your brothers—your own family, who were better than you—

2 Chronicles 21:14

behold, Adonai is going to strike your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions with a monumental catastrophe.

Esther 1:19

If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go forth from him, and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media, which cannot be repealed, that Vashti may not come into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and let the king give her royal status to another who is more worthy than she.

Psalm 7:16

He digs a pit, scrapes it out, and then falls into the hole he has made.

Psalm 7:17

His mischief will turn on his own head. His violence will boomerang on his crown.

Ezekiel 17:19

Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “As I live, surely I will bring on his head My oath that he has despised and My covenant that he has broken.

Numbers 32:23

“But if you don’t do this, behold, you sin against Adonai! Be assured! Your sin will find you out!

Judges 9:24

in order that the violence done to Jerubbaal’s 70 sons might come due, so their blood might be laid on their brother Abimelech who slew them, and on the lords of Shechem who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers.

Judges 9:57

Also all the wickedness of the men of Shechem God requited on their heads. Thus on them came the curse of Jotam son of Jerubbaal.

1 Samuel 15:28

Then Samuel said to him, “Adonai has torn the kingship over Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.