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 work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.
• Ps 101:8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
• Prov 25:5Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.
• 1 Kgs 2:33–34So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”
• Ps 62:12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
• 2 Chr 19:6–7and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
• 2 Tim 4:14Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
• 1 Kgs 2:5–6“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
• Rom 13:4for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
• 2 Sam 19:13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’”
• Isa 7:4Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
• Ps 7:16The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
• 1 Chr 22:5David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
• 2 Sam 19:5–7Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants, who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
• Ps 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
• Prov 20:8A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
• 1 Chr 2:15–16Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
• Exod 21:12“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

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