Justice and retribution (Bible Verses)

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2 Timothy 4:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

Job 18:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

Isaiah 49:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Genesis 9:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Obadiah 1:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

Esther 6:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Esther 6:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

Esther 3:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Esther 5:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Esther 8:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

Esther 6:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

1 Kings 21:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

Judges 20:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Judges 20:37 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

Numbers 31:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

Jeremiah 41:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

Judges 20:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

2 Samuel 10:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.

Jeremiah 51:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Exodus 21:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Judges 21:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

Esther 6:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Genesis 4:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

Numbers 31:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

Nahum 2:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

Jeremiah 51:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

Genesis 34:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Ezekiel 29:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

2 Samuel 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the LORD hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;

Esther 5:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.

Job 20:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Jeremiah 49:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

2 Samuel 13:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.

Judges 20:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

Judges 21:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Genesis 34:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Esther 7:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Jeremiah 51:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

Jeremiah 51:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

Judges 21:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

Esther 6:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Judges 20:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

Psalms 18:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

Judges 9:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

2 Samuel 2:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

Leviticus 24:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)

Esther 6:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

Judges 20:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

2 Samuel 19:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

Judges 8:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?

Judges 20:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

Genesis 34:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

Genesis 34:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

Genesis 34:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:

2 Samuel 21:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)

Jeremiah 51:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

Genesis 34:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Esther 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

Genesis 34:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Judges 20:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

Judges 20:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

Genesis 34:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

Genesis 34:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,

Genesis 34:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

Judges 20:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

Mark 6:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

Judges 20:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

Genesis 34:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

Numbers 31:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

Judges 15:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

Zechariah 5:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

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