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 men, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see; nor hear, nor walk;
Revelation 16:9
and men were scorched with great heat. And men blasphemed the name of God, who had the power over these plagues; and they repented not, to give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,
Mark 12:2
And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 13:33
But today and tomorrow and the next day I must go on; for it cannot be that a prophet should perish out of Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those who foretold the coming of the righteous one, of whom ye have now become the betrayers and murderers;
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and drove us out, and please not God, and set themselves against all men,
General references
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.