Hebrews 11:37

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

Stoned

Were slain

In sheepskins

2 Kings 1:8

Matthew 3:4

Revelation 11:3

Being destitute

James 5:10

General references

Ezekiel 3:8

Matthew 21:35

James 2:15

Bible References

Stoned

And set two men, sons of Belial, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And carry him out and stone him so that he may die.

And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

And the vinedressers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! the one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her; how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it.

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

And throwing him outside the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their clothes down at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.

Were slain

And the king said to the guard that stood around him, Turn and kill the priests of Jehovah, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.

for it happened when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and all that he killed, all the prophets with the sword.

In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple. Truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now been the betrayers and murderers;

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

In sheepskins

And they answered him, He was a hairy man and was bound with a girdle of leather around his loins. And he said, He is Elijah the Tishbite.

And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair and a leather girdle about his loins. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

Being destitute

Therefore since we also are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

My brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering ill, and of patience.

General references

Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces and your forehead strong against their foreheads.

And the vinedressers took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,