1 Thessalonians 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

Killed

Persecuted us

Amos 7:12

Acts 22:18

Please

Acts 12:3

1 Corinthians 10:5

Contrary

Esther 3:8

Luke 11:52

General references

Bible References

Killed

Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

Ye bear witness then, and consent to the works of your fathers; for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

but I must needs walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, for it must not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain.

but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof we are witnesses.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

The God of our fathers has raised up Jesus, whom ye have slain, having hanged on a cross.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have now become deliverers up and murderers!

Persecuted us

And Amaziah said unto Amos, Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

Please

And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)

yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

Contrary

And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people, and they keep not the king's laws; and it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.

General references

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, in your sight, all their evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.

Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.

Moreover those mine enemies, who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.

of sin, because they do not believe on me;

But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.