Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

Isaiah 1:5

Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Jeremiah 5:3

Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Acts 7:52

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!

Isaiah 9:13

But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.

Jeremiah 7:28

And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation which hath not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received correction; fidelity is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 26:20-24

And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim: and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah;

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.

2 Chronicles 24:21

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

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Jeremiah 6:29-30

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

Ezekiel 24:13

In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.

Zephaniah 3:2

She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God.

Matthew 21:35-36

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

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,

Matthew 23:34-37

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;

Mark 12:2-8

And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

Luke 11:47-51

Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

Luke 13:33-34

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.

Revelation 9:20-21

And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

Revelation 16:9

And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not repent to give him glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

In vain

Jeremiah 5:3
Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.
Jeremiah 7:28
And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation which hath not hearkened unto the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received correction; fidelity is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Jeremiah 31:18
I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock not trained: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
2 Chronicles 28:22
And in the time of his trouble he transgressed yet more against Jehovah, this king Ahaz.
Isaiah 1:5
Why should ye be smitten any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 9:13
But the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, and they do not seek Jehovah of hosts.
Ezekiel 24:13
In thy filthiness is lewdness, for I have purged thee, and thou art not pure. Thou shalt no more be purged from thy filthiness, till I have satisfied my fury upon thee.
Zephaniah 3:2
She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God.
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
Revelation 16:9
And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not repent to give him glory.

Your own sword

Jeremiah 26:20
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim: and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah;
1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.
2 Chronicles 24:21
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,
Mark 12:2
And he sent a bondman to the husbandmen at the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Luke 11:47
Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
Luke 13:33
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.
Acts 7:52
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!
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by persecution, and do not please God, and are against all men,

General references

Leviticus 26:23
And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,
Isaiah 5:4
What was there yet to do to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? --
Ezekiel 11:6
Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added this also to all the rest, that he shut up John in prison.