Judges 9:56

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Judges 9:56

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

God rendered

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God rendered

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

Doesn’t disaster come to the unjust
and misfortune to evildoers?

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

He will rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked;
a scorching wind will be their portion.

The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

He will pay them back for their sins
and destroy them for their evil.
The Lord our God will destroy them.

A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

For with the judgment you use, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”

Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows he will also reap,

But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.