God rendered. Both the fratricide Abimelech and the unprincipled men of Shechem had the iniquity visited upon them of which they had been guilty. Man's judgment may be avoided; but there is no escape from that of God. How many houses have been sown with salt in France, by the just judgment of God, for the massacre of the Protestants on the eve of St. Bartholomew!

Judges 9:45,24 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city...

Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 9:12 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

Psalm 11:6 On the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked...

Psalm 94:23 And he shall bring on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes...

Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom...

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

Revelation 19:20,21 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him...