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
And the rest of the men who were not slain by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood; which are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk:
Revelation 16:9
And the people were scorched with a great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, Who has power over these plagues: and they did not repent to give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
and the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and slew one, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and ornament the sepulchers of the righteous,
Mark 12:2
And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in the season, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard:
Luke 11:47
Woe unto you! because you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 13:33
Moreover it behooves Me to travel to-day and to-morrow and the day following: because it does not behoove a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? and they slew those proclaiming concerning the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you became:
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who even killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and are displeasing to God, and hostile to all men;
General references
Matthew 21:35
and the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and slew one, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added also this to all, and shut up John in prison.