For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
Judges 9:56 - New Revised Standard Version Thus God repaid Abimelech for the crime he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech which he had done to his father [Gideon] by slaying his seventy brothers; American Standard Version (1901) Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren; Common English Bible Thus God paid back Abimelech for the evil he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers. Catholic Public Domain Version And so did God repay the evil that Abimelech had done against his father by killing his seventy brothers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And God repaid the evil, that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren. |
For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind.
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”
Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.
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.
and God also made all the wickedness of the people of Shechem fall back on their heads, and on them came the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.