Parallel Verses
King James Version
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
New American Standard Bible
Thus
Holman Bible
In this way, God turned back on Abimelech the evil that he had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers.
International Standard Version
That's how God repaid Abimelech for the evil thing he did to 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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 9:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abimelech's Death
55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. 56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 94:23
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Judges 9:24
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Psalm 9:12
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Psalm 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalm 58:10-11
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Revelation 19:20-21
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.