Judges 9:56
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And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.

God rendered.

Judges 9:45,24 And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it. . . .

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Psalm 9:12 For requiring their blood, he hath remembered them: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 58:10,11 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. . . .

Psalm 94:23 And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

Revelation 19:20,21 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone. . . .

Context
Abimelech's Punishment
55And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes. 56And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.57The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:5
For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man.

Genesis 9:6
Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God.

Judges 9:24
And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him.

Judges 9:55
And when he was dead all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.

Judges 9:57
The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.

Psalm 94:23
And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Lexicon
In this way God
אֱלֹהִ֔ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

repaid
וַיָּ֣שֶׁב (way·yā·šeḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

the wickedness
רָעַ֣ת (rā·‘aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

that
אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

Abimelech
אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְ (’ă·ḇî·me·leḵ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 40: Abimelech -- 'father is king', a Philistine name, also an Israelite name

had done
עָשָׂה֙ (‘ā·śāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

to his father
לְאָבִ֔יו (lə·’ā·ḇîw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

by murdering
לַהֲרֹ֖ג (la·hă·rōḡ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 2026: To smite with deadly intent

his seventy
שִׁבְעִ֥ים (šiḇ·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7657: Seventy (a cardinal number)

brothers.
אֶחָֽיו׃ (’e·ḥāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )


Additional Translations
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brothers:

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren;

So God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he wrought against his father, in slaying his seventy brethren.

And God rendered back the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in slaying his seventy brethren.

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;

and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;
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