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
But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and give up worshipping daemons and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which cannot either see or hear or stir;
Revelation 16:9
till men, scorched by the fierce heat, blasphemed the name of the God who had control of these plagues; yet they would not repent and give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,
Mark 12:2
When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard,
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! you build tombs for the prophets whom your own fathers killed:
Luke 13:33
But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! ??53 you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!"
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men
General references
Matthew 21:35
but the vinedressers took his servants and flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Luke 3:20
crowned all by shutting John up in prison.