2 Samuel 3:39

David admits he feels weak against the ruthless sons of Zeruiah and leaves their judgment to the Lord. He entrusts vengeance to God rather than seizing it himself.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 28:4Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
• Ps 101:8I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
• Prov 25:5Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
• 1 Kgs 2:33–34Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.
• Ps 62:12Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.
• 2 Tim 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
• 1 Kgs 2:5–6Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
• Rom 13:4For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
• 2 Sam 19:13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
• Isa 7:4And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
• Ps 7:16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
• 1 Chr 22:5And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
• 2 Sam 19:5–7And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;
• Ps 75:10All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
• Prov 20:8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
• 1 Chr 2:15–16Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:
• Exod 21:12He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

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