Bible Cross References
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
1 Samuel 24:17
Then he said to David, "You are right, and I am wrong. You have been so good to me, while I have done such wrong to you!
1 Samuel 31:2
But the Philistines caught up with them and killed three of Saul's sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
1 Samuel 31:3
The fighting was heavy around Saul, and he himself was hit by enemy arrows and badly wounded.
2 Samuel 21:1-14
1
During David's reign there was a severe famine which lasted for three full years. So David consulted the LORD about it, and the LORD said, "Saul and his family are guilty of murder; he put the people of Gibeon to death."
2
(The people of Gibeon were not Israelites; they were a small group of Amorites whom the Israelites had promised to protect, but Saul had tried to destroy them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
3
So David summoned the people of Gibeon and said to them, "What can I do for you? I want to make up for the wrong that was done to you, so that you will bless the LORD's people."
4
They answered, "Our quarrel with Saul and his family can't be settled with silver or gold, nor do we want to kill any Israelite." "What, then, do you think I should do for you?" David asked.
5
They answered, "Saul wanted to destroy us and leave none of us alive anywhere in Israel.
6
So hand over seven of his male descendants, and we will hang them before the LORD at Gibeah, the hometown of Saul, the LORD's chosen king." "I will hand them over," the king answered.
7
But because of the sacred promise that he and Jonathan had made to each other, David spared Jonathan's son Mephibosheth, the grandson of Saul.
8
However, he took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons that Rizpah the daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul; he also took the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai, who was from Meholah.
9
David handed them over to the people of Gibeon, who hanged them on the mountain before the LORD ---and all seven of them died together. It was late in the spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest, when they were put to death.
10
Then Saul's concubine Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, used sackcloth to make a shelter for herself on the rock where the corpses were, and she stayed there from the beginning of harvest until the autumn rains came. During the day she would keep the birds away from the corpses, and at night she would protect them from wild animals.
11
When David heard what Rizpah had done,
12
he went and got the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh in Gilead. (They had stolen them from the public square in Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged the bodies on the day they killed Saul on Mount Gilboa.)
13
David took the bones of Saul and Jonathan and also gathered up the bones of the seven men who had been hanged.
14
Then they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan in the grave of Saul's father Kish, in Zela in the territory of Benjamin, doing all that the king had commanded. And after that, God answered their prayers for the country.
Psalm 35:12
They pay me back evil for good, and I sink in despair.
Psalm 38:20
Those who pay back evil for good are against me because I try to do right.
Psalm 55:12-15
12
If it were an enemy making fun of me, I could endure it; if it were an opponent boasting over me, I could hide myself from him.
13
But it is you, my companion, my colleague and close friend.
14
We had intimate talks with each other and worshiped together in the Temple.
15
May my enemies die before their time; may they go down alive into the world of the dead! Evil is in their homes and in their hearts.
Psalm 109:4-13
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They oppose me, even though I love them and have prayed for them.
5
They pay me back evil for good and hatred for love.
6
Choose some corrupt judge to try my enemy, and let one of his own enemies accuse him.
7
May he be tried and found guilty; may even his prayer be considered a crime!
8
May his life soon be ended; may someone else take his job!
9
May his children become orphans, and his wife a widow!
10
May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!
11
May his creditors take away all his property, and may strangers get everything he worked for.
12
May no one ever be kind to him or care for the orphans he leaves behind.
13
May all his descendants die, and may his name be forgotten in the next generation.
Jeremiah 18:20
Is evil the payment for good? Yet they have dug a pit for me to fall in. Remember how I came to you and spoke on their behalf, so that you would not deal with them in anger.
Jeremiah 18:21
But now, LORD, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle.
Matthew 27:5
Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.
Matthew 27:25
The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"
Romans 12:17
If someone has done you wrong, do not repay him with a wrong. Try to do what everyone considers to be good.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.
1 Peter 3:9
Do not pay back evil with evil or cursing with cursing; instead, pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give you when he called you.