Quotes about Justice
David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
— 1 Samuel 26:10
This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
— 1 Samuel 26:16
Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
— 2 Samuel 3:8
May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:
— 2 Samuel 3:9
Afterward, David heard about this and said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD concerning the blood of Abner son of Ner.
— 2 Samuel 3:28
May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
— 2 Samuel 3:29
(Joab and his brother Abishai murdered Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.)
— 2 Samuel 3:30
And the king sang this lament for Abner: “Should Abner die the death of a fool?
— 2 Samuel 3:33
So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.
— 2 Samuel 3:37
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
— 2 Samuel 4:10
How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
— 2 Samuel 4:11
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
— 2 Samuel 4:12