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 those who were left of mankind, who had not perished through these Curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of 'demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk';
Revelation 16:9
and men were scorched by the intense heat. They blasphemed the Name of God who controlled these Curses, yet they did not repent and give him praise.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:29
Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You build the tombs of the Prophets, and decorate the monuments of religious men,
Mark 12:2
At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from them a share of the produce of the vintage;
Luke 11:47
Alas for you! You build the monuments of the Prophets whom your ancestors killed.
Luke 13:33
But to-day and to-morrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a Prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
Which of the Prophets escaped persecution at their hands? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you, in your turn, have now become the betrayers and murderers--
1 Thessalonians 2:15
The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the Prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all mankind,
General references
Matthew 21:35
But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Luke 3:20
Crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.