2 Samuel 1:16

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

David said to him, 'Your blood is on your own head, because your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the LORD's anointed.’'

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Matt 27:25 : 25 And all the people answered, 'His blood be on us and on our children!'
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?'
  • 1 Kgs 2:37 : 37 'For on the day you leave and cross the Kidron Valley, you can be sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head.'
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.
  • 1 Sam 26:9 : 9 But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
  • 2 Sam 1:10 : 10 So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew he could not survive after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.
  • Josh 2:19 : 19 If anyone leaves the house, their death will be on their own head, and we will not be guilty. But if harm comes to anyone in your house, we will take the blame.
  • Judg 9:24 : 24 This happened so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged, and their blood laid on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the leaders of Shechem, who had supported him in killing his brothers.
  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 I will require an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand it from any animal and from every person. From each person, I will demand an accounting for the life of another person. 6 Whoever sheds human blood, by humans will their blood be shed; for in the image of God, God made mankind.
  • 2 Sam 3:28-29 : 28 Later, when David heard about this, he declared, 'I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD regarding the blood of Abner son of Ner. 29 May the guilt fall upon Joab and his entire family! May they always be afflicted with a discharge, skin disease, a need to rely on a crutch, death by the sword, or lack of bread.'
  • 1 Kgs 2:32-33 : 32 The LORD will bring back his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than himself—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—killing them with the sword without my father David knowing it. 33 Their blood will come back on the head of Joab and his descendants forever, but there will be peace from the LORD forever for David, his descendants, his house, and his throne.
  • Lev 20:11-13 : 11 If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. 12 If a man sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must surely be put to death. They have committed a perversion; their blood is upon them. 13 If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  • Lev 20:16 : 16 If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  • Lev 20:27 : 27 If a man or a woman has a spirit of divination or is a medium, they must be put to death. They are to be stoned, and their blood is upon them.
  • Deut 19:10 : 10 This is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood within the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your lips testify against you.
  • Prov 6:2 : 2 you have been trapped by the words of your mouth, caught by the words of your mouth.
  • Ezek 18:13 : 13 He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a person live? He will not! Because he has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death, and his blood will be on his own head.
  • Ezek 33:5 : 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, their blood will be on themselves. If they had taken warning, they would have saved their lives.
  • Acts 20:26 : 26 Therefore, I testify to you today that I am innocent of the blood of everyone.
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Sam 1:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13David said to the young man who brought him the report, 'Where are you from?' He answered, 'I am the son of an Amalekite sojourner.'

    14David asked him, 'How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?'

    15Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

  • 1 Sam 26:8-11
    4 verses
    82%

    8Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't need to strike him twice."

    9But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can lay a hand on the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

    10David also said, "As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.

    11The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD's anointed. Now take the spear by his head and the jar of water, and let us go.

  • 1 Sam 24:9-11
    3 verses
    81%

    9David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.

    10David said to Saul, 'Why do you listen to the words of men who say, "David seeks your harm"?'

    11'This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you and said, "I will not lay my hand on my lord because he is the LORD’s anointed."'

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    80%

    17David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan:

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    80%

    5He risked his life to kill the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. So why would you sin by shedding innocent blood by killing David without cause?

  • 1 Sam 26:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16What you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, you deserve to die because you did not guard your lord, the LORD's anointed. Now, look around! Where are the king's spear and the jar of water that were near his head?"

    17Saul recognized David’s voice and said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" David replied, "It is my voice, my lord the king."

  • 2 Sam 16:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8The Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed in the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are now caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed."

    9Then Abishai, son of Zeruiah, said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!"

  • 2 Sam 12:7
    78%

    7Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man! This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 1:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for I am in agony and my life still lingers in me.'

    10So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew he could not survive after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.

  • 2 Sam 4:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10When someone told me, 'Saul is dead,' thinking he was bringing me good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag. That was the reward I gave him for his news.

    11How much more, then, when wicked men have killed an innocent man in his own house and on his own bed! Should I not now demand his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?

  • 1 Sam 22:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.'

    17Then the king ordered the guards standing by him, 'Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they are allies of David. They knew he was fleeing but didn’t inform me.' But the king's servants were unwilling to raise their hands to strike the priests of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31-32
    2 verses
    77%

    31The king said to him, 'Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and my father's house the guilt of the blood that Joab shed without cause.

    32The LORD will bring back his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than himself—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel's army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah's army—killing them with the sword without my father David knowing it.

  • 1 Sam 24:6
    77%

    6Afterward, David's heart troubled him because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.

  • 2 Sam 19:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21'For I, your servant, know that I have sinned. But today I have come here as the first of the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.'

    22But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, 'Shouldn't Shimei be put to death for this? He cursed the LORD's anointed!'

  • 1 Sam 26:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    22David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear. Let one of the young men come over and take it.

    23The LORD repays everyone for their righteousness and faithfulness, for the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not lay my hand on the LORD's anointed.

  • 1 Sam 28:17
    76%

    17The LORD has done as he spoke through me. He has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    76%

    13Saul said to him, 'Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has risen against me to lie in wait, as he does today?'

  • 1 Sam 24:15-18
    4 verses
    76%

    15Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

    16May the LORD be our judge and decide between us. May He see and plead my case and vindicate me from your hand.

    17When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul asked, 'Is that your voice, my son David?' And Saul wept aloud.

    18He said to David, 'You are more righteous than I, for you have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.'

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4David said to him, 'What happened? Tell me.' He answered, 'The people fled from the battle, and many fell and died. Saul and Jonathan, his son, are also dead.'

    5David asked the young man who brought him the report, 'How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?'

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    76%

    57As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 4:8
    76%

    8They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has given my lord the king revenge against Saul and his descendants."

  • 1 Sam 26:20
    76%

    20Now then, do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.

  • 1 Sam 19:1
    76%

    1Saul spoke to his son Jonathan and to all his servants, commanding them to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, held a deep affection for David.

  • 2 Sam 3:28
    75%

    28Later, when David heard about this, he declared, 'I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD regarding the blood of Abner son of Ner.

  • 1 Sam 20:31-32
    2 verses
    75%

    31As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!'

    32Jonathan responded to his father Saul and asked, 'Why should he be put to death? What has he done?'

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    75%

    14He did not seek guidance from the LORD, so the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David, son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 22:22
    75%

    22David said to Abiathar, 'That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family.'

  • 1 Kgs 2:9
    74%

    9However, do not consider him innocent. You are a wise man, and you will know what you ought to do to him. Bring his gray head down to the grave in blood.

  • 2 Sam 12:13
    74%

    13Then David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the Lord.' Nathan replied, 'The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    74%

    24When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,