2 Samuel 21:1

The Gibeonites Demand Revenge

21:1 During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. ¹  The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, ²  because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

Esther 9:24-25

9:24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them. 9:25 But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king ³  gave written orders that Haman’s ⁴  evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

Matthew 7:2

7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “sought the face of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “and the house of bloodshed.”

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Haman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Grk “by [the measure] with which you measure it will be measured to you.”