Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
That's how God repaid Abimelech for the evil thing he did to his father by killing his 70 brothers.
New American Standard Bible
Thus
King James Version
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
Holman Bible
In this way, God turned back on Abimelech the evil that he had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers.
A Conservative Version
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brothers.
American Standard Version
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
Amplified
In this way God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father [Jerubbaal] by killing his seventy brothers.
Bible in Basic English
In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;
Darby Translation
Thus God requited the crime of Abim'elech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;
Julia Smith Translation
And God will turn back the evil of Abimelech which he did. to his father for killing his seventy brethren.
King James 2000
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
Lexham Expanded Bible
So God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.
Modern King James verseion
And God repaid the evil of Abimelech, that which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren,
NET Bible
God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.
New Heart English Bible
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
The Emphasized Bible
Thus did God requite the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;
Webster
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
World English Bible
Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
Youngs Literal Translation
and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;
Themes
Homicide » Instances of felonious » Abimelech
Thebez » A city » A city, at which abimelech was killed while besieging
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 9:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abimelech's Death
55 When the men of Israel noticed that Abimelech was dead, they each left for home. 56 That's how God repaid Abimelech for the evil thing he did to his father by killing his 70 brothers. 57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their wickedness, and the curse of Jerubbaal's son Jotham came true for them.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 94:23
He will repay them for their sin; he will annihilate them because of their evil. The LORD our God will annihilate them.
Judges 9:24
so that the violence committed against the 70 sons of Jerubbaal might come back on their brother Abimelech, who murdered them, and so it might come back on the "lords" of Shechem, who provoked him to murder his brothers.
Proverbs 5:22
The wicked person's iniquities will capture him, and he will be held with the cords of his sin.
Job 31:3
if not calamity that is due the unjust, and misfortune that is due those who practice iniquity?
Psalm 9:12
As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
Psalm 11:6
He rains on the wicked burning coals and sulfur; a scorching wind is their destiny.
Psalm 58:10-11
The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Matthew 7:2
because the way that you judge others will be the way that you will be judged, and you will be evaluated by the standard with which you evaluate others.
Acts 28:4
When the people who lived there saw the snake hanging from his hand, they told one another, "This man must be a murderer! He may have escaped from the sea, but Justice won't let him live."
Galatians 6:7
Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:
Revelation 19:20-21
The beast was captured, along with the false prophet who had performed signs on its behalf. By these signs the false prophet had deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped its image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.