Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Wicked
General references
Bible References
Wicked
Acts 12:2
and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Slay
Matthew 23:30
"'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'
Acts 7:52
"Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become??53 "you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."
1 John 3:12
We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.
General references
Revelation 12:13
When the dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he pursued the woman who gave birth to the man child.