Proverbs 17:13 Cross References - ISV

¹³ The person who repays good with evil will never see evil leave his home.

¹⁷ to David, “You are more righteous than I am, because you have treated me well even though I’ve treated you poorly.

² The Philistines pursued Saul and his sons. The Philistines struck down Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul’s sons. ³ The heaviest fighting was directed toward Saul, and when the bowmen who were shooting located Saul, he was severely wounded by them.

¹⁰ “‘Therefore the sword will never leave your household, because you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

¹ Retribution for the GibeonitesOne time there was a famine during David’s reign that went on for three straight years. David sought the LORD, who said, “Saul and his household are guilty because he executed the Gibeonites.”
² So the king called together the Gibeonites and conferred with them. Now the Gibeonites weren’t part of the nation of Israel, but were the survivors from the Amorites. Although the Israelis had promised to spare them, Saul had started to execute them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.
³ So David asked the Gibeonites, “What am I to do for you? How am I to make atonement so that you will bless the LORD’s heritage?”
⁴ “We’re not looking for mere silver or gold to be paid by Saul or his household to us,” the Gibeonites responded to him. “And it’s not for us to execute anyone in Israel.”
In reply, David asked, “So what are you asking me to do for you?”
⁵ They told the king, “The man who consumed us, who planned our destruction—intending to leave us with nothing in the territory of Israel— ⁶ is to have seven of his sons turned over to us. We will hang them in the presence of the LORD at Gibeah, which belonged to Saul, whom the LORD chose.”
So the king answered, “I will give them.” ⁷ The king exempted Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the promise to the LORD that existed between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.
⁸ Instead, the king arrested Aiah’s daughter Rizpah’s two sons Armoni and Mephibosheth, whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Barzillai the Meholathite’s son Adriel. ⁹ Then he turned them over to the custody of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain in the presence of the LORD. All seven of them died at the same time. They were executed during the first days of harvest, just as the barley began to be gathered in.
¹⁰ Then Aiah’s daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them at night.
¹¹ When David was informed what Rizpah, the daughter of Saul’s mistress had done, ¹² David had Saul’s bones and the bones of his son Jonathan removed from the custody of certain men from Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square in Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them—that is, back on the day when the Philistines had killed Saul on Mount Gilboa. ¹³ He brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there along with the bones of those who had been hanged, ¹⁴ and they buried Saul’s bones and his son Jonathan’s bones in the territory of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything that the king commanded, God responded to prayers for the land.

¹² They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.

²⁰ They reward my good with evil, opposing me because I seek to do good.

¹² For it is not an enemy who insults me— I could have handled that— nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me— I could have hidden myself from him— ¹³ but it is you— a man whom I treated as my equal— my personal confidant, my close friend! ¹⁴ We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God! ¹⁵ Let death seize them! May they be plunged alive into the afterlife, for wicked things are in their homes and among them.

⁴ Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer. ⁵ They devise evil against me instead of good, and hatred in place of my love. ⁶ Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side. ⁷ When he is judged, may he be found guilty; may his prayer be regarded as sin. ⁸ May his days be few; may another take over his position. ⁹ May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes. ¹¹ May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired. ¹² May no one extend gracious love to him, or show favor to his fatherless children. ¹³ May his descendants be eliminated, and their memory be erased from the next generation.

²⁰ Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to take my life. Remember! I stood before you and spoke good on their behalf in order to turn your wrath away from them. ²¹ Therefore, make their children undergo famine, and deliver them over to death in time of war. May their women be childless widows! May their men be slaughtered! May their young men be slain by the sword in battle!

⁵ Then he flung the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, went outside, ran away, and hanged himself.

²⁵ All the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and our children!”

¹⁷ Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

¹⁵ Make sure that no one pays back evil for evil. Instead, always pursue what is good for each other and for everyone else.

⁹ Do not pay others back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, keep blessing them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.