Quotes About Retribution

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your masterís sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.

When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horsesí entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

So Hanun took Davidís servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

Those who conspired against Joash were Zabad son of Shimeath the Ammonitess and Jehozabad son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.

From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the kingís gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the kingís mouth, they covered Hamanís face.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Hamanís house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.