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
As for the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, they did not repent of their evil actions, so as to forbear worshipping demons, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:
Revelation 16:9
and men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues: and they repented not, to give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
but they seiz'd his servants, beat some, killed one, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the just,
Mark 12:2
at the time of vintage he sent his servant to the vine-dressers to receive the profits of his vineyard.
Luke 11:47
wo unto you, for you rebuild the sepulchres of those prophets, whom your fathers put to death:
Luke 13:33
till then I must be stirring about, to-day, and to-morrow, and the next day: for a prophet cannot be put to death any where, but at Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
was there ever any prophet whom your fathers did not persecute? have they not slain those who predicted the coming of that just person whom you have so lately betrayed and murder'd?
1 Thessalonians 2:15
the very men who have persecuted the Lord Jesus, and the prophets even to death; who have persecuted us; they who are regardless of pleasing the deity, and are enemies to all mankind;
General references
Matthew 21:35
but they seiz'd his servants, beat some, killed one, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
to compleat all the rest, Herod confin'd John in prison.