Revenge

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 1 Samuel 25:24-31 OT

  She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant. Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so…

• 1 Samuel 26:9 OT

  David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

• 1 Samuel 25:32 OT

  David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

• 1 Samuel 25:33 OT

  Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

• Jeremiah 20:10 OT

  For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take…

• Ezekiel 25:15-17 OT

  “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;” therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the…

• Amos 1:11 OT

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

• Amos 1:12 OT

  but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

• Genesis 34:25 OT

  On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

• Judges 15:7 OT

  Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

• Judges 15:8 OT

  He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

• Judges 16:28-30 OT

  Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.” Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which…

• 2 Samuel 3:27 OT

  When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

• 2 Samuel 13:23-29 OT

  After two full years, Absalom had sheep shearers in Baal Hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king’s sons. Absalom came to the king, and said, “See now, your servant has sheep shearers. Please let the king and his…

• 1 Kings 19:2 OT

  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

• 1 Kings 22:26 OT

  The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.

• Esther 3:8-15 OT

  Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it…

• Ezekiel 25:12 OT

  “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”

• Mark 6:19-24 NT

  Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly. Then a…

• Acts 5:33 NT

  But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

• Acts 7:54 NT

  Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

• Acts 7:59 NT

  They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

• Acts 23:12 NT

  When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.