2 Kings 9:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

Of his sons

Deuteronomy 24:16

2 Chronicles 24:25

2 Chronicles 25:4

I will requite

Exodus 20:5

Deuteronomy 5:9

Ezekiel 18:19

General references

Proverbs 28:17

Bible References

Of his sons

Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

I will requite

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.

General references

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.