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 the men, who were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither hear, nor see, nor walk:
Revelation 16:9
And the men were scorched exceedingly, and blasphemed the name of God, who had power over these plagues: but they repented not to give him glory.
Your own sword
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Matthew 23:29
Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous.
Mark 12:2
And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, to receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
Luke 11:47
Wo to you; for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets; whom your fathers killed.
Luke 13:33
But I must go on to day, and to morrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them that shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: Who have received the law by the administration of angels,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men.
General references
Matthew 21:35
And the husbandmen taking his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Luke 3:20
that he shut up John in prison.