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 mankind who were not killed with these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They would not give up the worship of demons and of idols made of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
Revelation 16:9
And men were scorched with the terrible heat; and they blasphemed the name of the God who had the power over these plagues; yet they repented not, to give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:29
"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You rebuild the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say,
Mark 12:2
At vintage-time he sent a slave to the vine-dressers to collect some of the proceeds of the vineyard;
Luke 11:47
"Woe to you! for you are building the tombs of the prophets whom you ancestors killed.
Luke 13:33
"Yet I must continue my journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it would never do for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!
Acts 7:52
"Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become??53 "you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."
General references
Matthew 21:35
And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Luke 3:20
added yet this above them all that he shut up John in prison.