Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
In vain
Your own sword
General references
Bible References
In vain
Revelation 9:20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshipping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;
Revelation 16:9
Men were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
And the tenants took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
Mark 12:2
At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants, to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must journey today and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men,
General references
Matthew 21:35
And the tenants took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.