Retribution tempting, with king having ousted bishop (9)
I believe the answer is:
reckoning
'retribution' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I cannot understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reckoning that I've seen before include "Settling of accounts" , "estimating?" , "Counting, calculating" , "Count" .)