2 Samuel 18:15
Hebrew Text— 2 Samuel 18:15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
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The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.
Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”
There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;