THEOSISJudges 9:56Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.
וַיָּ֣שֶׁב אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֵ֖ת רָעַ֣ת אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֤ר עָשָׂה֙ לְאָבִ֔יו לַהֲרֹ֖ג אֶת־שִׁבְעִ֥ים אֶחָֽיו׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 94 (93):23
- Prov 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
- Judg 9:24And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.
- Ps 58 (57):10
- Ps 58 (57):11
- Matt 7:2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- Rev 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.
- Rev 19:21And the rest were slain by the sword of him that sitteth upon the horse, which proceedeth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.