Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!
Ruth 2:12
May Jehovah reward you for what you have done. May you have a full reward from Jehovah the God of Israel, to whom you have come for protection!
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be filled with joy, for great is your reward in heaven. The prophets, who came before you, were also persecuted.
Deuteronomy 32:11-12
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its wings,
2 Chronicles 24:21-22
They plotted against Zechariah. Then they followed the king's order and stoned him to death in the courtyard of Jehovah's Temple.
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as if I were the pupil (apple) of your eye (center of attention). Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 36:7
How precious is your loving-kindness, O God! And the children of men put their trust in the shadow of your wings.
Psalm 57:1
([Psalm of David]) Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me for I take refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge until disaster has passed.
Psalm 63:7
You have been my help. In the shadow (defense) of your wings, I sing joyfully.
Psalm 81:8-11
Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you. O Israel, if you would listen to me!
Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge. His truth is your shield and armor.
Proverbs 1:24-31
I called you! I stretched out my hand to you. You paid no attention to me.
Isaiah 50:2
Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Do I not have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.
Jeremiah 2:30
I have punished your children without results. They did not respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 6:8
Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 6:16-17
Jehovah says: Stand by the way [of life] and see and ask for the ancient paths. Walk in the good way and you will find rest. But you said: We will not walk in it!
Jeremiah 11:7-8
I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt. Even to this day I persistently warned them, saying: 'Listen to my voice.'
Jeremiah 25:3-7
Jehovah continued to speak his word to me for twenty-three years. This covered the time from when Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Jeremiah 26:23
They brought Uriah from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king executed Uriah and threw his body into the burial ground for the common people.
Jeremiah 35:15
I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said: Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and do not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.
Jeremiah 42:9-13
I said to them, Jehovah, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me with your request said:
Jeremiah 44:4
I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.
Hosea 11:2
But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
Hosea 11:7
My people are determined to turn (apostatize) from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will by no means exalt them.
Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your fathers! The former prophets declared: 'Jehovah of Hosts said, I implore you, return from your evil ways, and from your wicked activities! But they did not listen, they paid no attention to me,' said Jehovah.
Matthew 21:35-36
The workmen attacked his servants, striking one with a stone and killing the other.
Matthew 22:3
He sent out his servants to invite guests to the feast, but they would not come.
Matthew 22:6
The rest violently attacked his servants and put them to death.
Matthew 23:30
You claim that you would not have been involved with your fathers when they spilled the blood of the prophets.
Mark 12:3-6
They beat him and sent him away empty.
Luke 13:34-35
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets! You stone those sent to you. How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her own brood under her wings. But you would not have it!
Luke 14:17-20
He sent his servant to tell the guests that everything is ready.
Luke 15:28
The older brother was so angry he would not enter the house. His father came out and begged him to come in.
Luke 19:14-44
His citizens hated him. They sent a spokesman to him saying we do not want this man to rule us.
Luke 20:11-14
He sent another servant who was also treated shamefully, beaten and sent away empty.
Acts 7:51-52
You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
They killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They did not please God and are contrary to all men.
Revelation 11:7-8
When they finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them and conquer them, and kill them.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered greatly.