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

Get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

They plotted against Zechariah. Then they followed the king's order and stoned him to death in the courtyard of Jehovah's Temple.

The workmen attacked his servants, striking one with a stone and killing the other.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets! You stone those sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings. But you would not have it!

The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet. His name was Saul.

Jews from Antioch and Iconium took control of the crowd. They persuaded the people to stone Paul. Then they threw him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

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

Were slain

The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.

When Jezebel massacred the prophets of Jehovah, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and hid them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.

King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything Elijah had done. He told how he put all the prophets of Baal to death.

I have punished your children without results. They did not respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.

They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil doing of her priests. They have drained the blood of the upright out from her.

You are responsible for all the righteous blood shed on earth. That includes the blood of the righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

This includes the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. I tell you it will be required of this generation.

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one whom you have betrayed and murdered.

He killed James the brother of John with a sword.

In sheepskins

He was a hairy man wearing a cloak made of animal skins, tied with a leather belt, they answered. It is Elijah! The king exclaimed.

John wore clothes made from camel's hair. He had a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

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

Being destitute

A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

I will bring the third part into the fire. I will refine them, as silver is refined, and I will test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: 'It is my people!' They will say: 'Jehovah is my God!'

Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.

For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Brothers, accept the example of suffering and patience by the prophets who spoke in the name of God.

General references

Yet, I will make you as stubborn and as hardheaded as they are.

The workmen attacked his servants, striking one with a stone and killing the other.

If a brother or sister is without clothes and in lack of daily food,