Proverbs 17:13 Cross References - Thomson

¹³ Whosoever returneth evil for good; from his house evils shall not depart.

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast returned me good; but I have returned thee evil.

² and the Philistines came to a close engagement with Saul and his sons, and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Aminadab, and Melchisa, sons of Saul. ³ And the battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded in the hypochondres,

¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife,

¹ In the days of David there was a famine three years, year after year successively; whereupon David applied to the Lord, and the Lord said, On Saul and on his house be the iniquity, by the death of his descendants, because he put to death the Gabaonites. ² Now the Gabaonites are not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought occasion to smite them, when he was courting popularity with the children of Israel and Juda. ³ So king David sent for the Gabaonites, and said to them, What shall I do for you; and by what means can I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord? ⁴ And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no controversy with Saul and his household, about gold or silver, nor is it for us to put to death a man in Israel. ⁵ And the king said, What do you say, I must do for you? And they said to the king, The man who set himself against us, and persecuted us, and who formed pretences to exterminate us, him let us destroy, that he may not rise up in all the borders of Israel. ⁶ Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. ⁷ But the king had compassion on Memphibosthe, the son of Jonathan, Saul's son, on account of the oath of the Lord between them; namely between David and Jonathan, Saul's son. ⁸ So the king took the two sons of Respha, the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, namely Ermoni and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel, the son of Berzelli, the Mooulothite, ⁹ and delivered them into the hands of the Gabaonites, and they crucified them on the mount before the Lord. So these seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest of first fruits, in the beginning of the barley harvest. ¹⁰ And Respha, the daughter of Aia, took sackcloth, and fixed it up for herself, before the rock, in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water from heaven dropped upon them; and she suffered not the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. ¹¹ When David was told what Respha the daughter of Aia Saul's concubine had done; [now they were wasted away, and Dan son of Joa, of the race of the giants had taken them down.] ¹² David went, and took the t bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabis Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Baithsan, where the Philistines had fixed them on the day when the Philistines smote Saul at Gelbua; ¹³ and having brought thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, he gathered up the bones of them who had been crucified. ¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, and the bones of them who were crucified, in the land of Benjamin, on the one side, in the tomb of his father Kis. And when they had done all that the king commanded, God, after that, hearkened to the land.

¹² they returned me evil for good, even bereavement to my soul.

²⁰ They who reward me evil for good, traduced me: because I followed righteousness.

¹² Had an enemy reproached me I could have borne it. And had the man who hated me magnified himself against me, I could have hid myself from him. ¹³ But thou, man, my second self, my guide, mine intimate friend! ¹⁴ Who being with me didst sweeten my repasts! In the house of God, we walked in unanimity; ¹⁵ Let death come upon them; Let them go down alive to the mansion of the dead: because there was wickedness in their dwellings; in the midst of them.

⁴ They traduced me for my love; but I prayed, ⁵ when they were rendering me evil for good, and hatred for my love. ⁶ "Set a sinner over him; and let an accuser stand at his right hand. ⁷ When he is judged let him be condemned; and let his supplication be deemed an offence. ⁸ Let his days be few; and let another take his office. ⁹ Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg: let them be cast out from their dwellings. ¹¹ Let an extortioner seize all that he hath; and strangers make spoil of his labours. ¹² Let there be none to help him; nor any to compassionate his orphan children. ¹³ Let his children be for destruction; In one generation let his name be blotted out.

²⁰ Shall evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived designs against my life and concealed the punishment they intended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede for them; to turn away thy wrath from them. ²¹ For this cause deliver up their sons to famine and give them up in multitudes to the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows; and the husbands be cut off by pestilence and their young men fall by the sword in battle.

⁵ Thereupon he threw down the money in the temple, and withdrew, and went and strangled himself.

²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

¹⁷ Render to none evil for evil. Be provident in regard to things good in the sight of all men.

¹⁵ see that none return evil for evil to any one; but on all occasions do all the good you can, both to one another and to all men.

⁹ not rendering evil for evil, revile for revile; but on the contrary, blessing; knowing that you have been called for this, that you may inherit a blessing.