2 Samuel 16:8
The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his stead; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Abessalom your son: and, behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody man.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
7And thus Semei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin.
Cross References
Judges 9:56So God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he wrought against his father, in slaying his seventy brethren.
2 Samuel 3:28And David heard of it afterwards, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord even for ever of the blood of Abenner the son of Ner.
2 Samuel 19:19and said to the king, Let not my lord now impute iniquity, and remember not all the iniquity of your servant in the day in which my lord went out from Jerusalem, so that the king should mind it.
1 Kings 2:8And, behold, there is with you Semei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Baurim: and he cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went into the + 2:8 Gr. camps. camp; and he came down to Jordan to meet me, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.
Psalms 3:2Many say concerning my soul, There is no deliverance for him in his God. + 3:2 The word Διάψαλμα (Selah) has been rendered Pause, as most intelligible to the English reader. Pause. 1
Psalms 7:4if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies. 1
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 16:6-15
David Cursed by Shimei. ( b. c. 1023.) 5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. 6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: 8 The Lord hath returned upon thee all… Read the whole commentary →