56 (A)Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.

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56 Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers.

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32 The Lord will (A)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 (B)more righteous and better than himself, (C)Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and (D)Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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32 The Lord will repay(A) him for the blood he shed,(B) because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa(C) son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better(D) men and more upright than he.

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25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing (A)that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews (B)should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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25 But when the plot came to the king’s attention,[a] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head,(A) and that he and his sons should be impaled(B) on poles.(C)

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  1. Esther 9:25 Or when Esther came before the king

16 His (A)mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own skull his violence descends.

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16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
    their violence comes down on their own heads.

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35 so that on you may come all (A)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (B)Abel to the blood of (C)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (D)the sanctuary and (E)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (F)all these things will come upon this generation.

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  1. Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel(A) to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah,(B) whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.(C) 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.(D)

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