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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Whoson rewardeth
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
for good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
, evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
shall not depart
muwsh (Hebrew #4185)
to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: cease, depart, go back, remove, take away.
Pronounce: moosh
Origin: a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as 4184 through the idea of receding by contact)
muwsh (Hebrew #4185)
to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: cease, depart, go back, remove, take away.
Pronounce: moosh
Origin: a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as 4184 through the idea of receding by contact)
from his house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
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Psa. 55:12‑15• 12For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me--then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me--then would I have hidden myself from him;
 13But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. …
 14We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.
 15Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. (Psa. 55:12‑15)

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1 Sam. 24:17• 17And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. (1 Sam. 24:17)
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1 Sam. 31:2‑3• 2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
 3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers came up with him; and he was much terrified by the archers. (1 Sam. 31:2‑3)
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2 Sam. 21:1‑14• 1And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.
 2And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)
 3And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?
 4And the Gibeonites said to him, As to Saul and his house, it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold, neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel. And he said, What ye say will I do for you.
 5And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel,
 6let seven men of his sons be given up to us, and we will hang them up to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give them.
 7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
 8And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of the sister of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;
 9and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.
 10Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens, and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
 11And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
 12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa;
 13and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
 14And they buried them with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land. (2 Sam. 21:1‑14)
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Psa. 35:12• 12They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul. (Psa. 35:12)
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Psa. 38:20• 20And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good. (Psa. 38:20)
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Psa. 55:12‑15• 12For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me--then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me--then would I have hidden myself from him;
 13But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. …
 14We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.
 15Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst. (Psa. 55:12‑15)
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Psa. 109:4‑13• 4For my love they are mine adversaries; but I give myself unto prayer.
 5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
 6Set a wicked man over him, and let the adversary stand at his right hand;
 7When he shall be judged, let him go out guilty, and let his prayer become sin;
 8Let his days be few, let another take his office;
 9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
 10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
 11Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
 13Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out: (Psa. 109:4‑13)
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Jer. 18:20‑21• 20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
 21Therefore give up their children to the famine, and deliver them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of children and be widows; and let their men be swept off by death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle. (Jer. 18:20‑21)
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Matt. 27:5,25• 5And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.
 25And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children. (Matt. 27:5,25)
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Rom. 12:17• 17recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men: (Rom. 12:17)
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1 Thess. 5:15• 15See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all; (1 Thess. 5:15)
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1 Peter 3:9• 9not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing. (1 Peter 3:9)
• Note the ways and doom of Joab when he became lifted up in his own eyes (1 Kings 2:28-34). (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.