Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad:
for great [
is] your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew 23:31-
37 Wherefore ye be
witnesses unto yourselves,
that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. ... O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
[thou] that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee,
how often would I have gathered thy children together,
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under [
her] wings,
and ye would not!
1 Kings 18:4 For it was [
so], when
Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty
in a cave, and
fed them with
bread and water.)
1 Kings 18:13 Was it not told my lord
what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how
I hid an hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and
fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying,
So let the gods do [
to me], and more also,
if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
1 Kings 19:10 And he said, I have been
very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, [
even]
I only, am left; and
they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 22:24 But
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and
smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said,
Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was
wroth with the seer, and
put him in a prison house; for [
he was] in a rage with him because of this [
thing]. And Asa
oppressed [
some] of the people
the same time.
2 Chronicles 24:21-
22 And they
conspired against him, and
stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. ... Thus Joash the king
remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him,
but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [
it],
and require [it].
2 Chronicles 36:15-
16 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by
his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: ... But they
mocked the messengers of God, and
despised his words, and
misused his prophets, until
the wrath of the LORD arose against his people,
till [
there was] no
remedy.
Nehemiah 9:26 Nevertheless
they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and
cast thy law behind their backs, and
slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they
wrought great provocations.
Jeremiah 2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 25:3-
7 From the
thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that [
is] the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you,
rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. ... Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD;
that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jeremiah 26:21-
24 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words,
the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it,
he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; ... Nevertheless the hand of
Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah,
that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
Luke 13:33-
34 Nevertheless
I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the [
day] following:
for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. ... O
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which
killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee;
how often would I have gathered
thy children together,
as a hen [
doth gather] her brood under [
her] wings,
and ye would not!
Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them
which shewed before of the coming of
the Just One;
of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
1 Thessalonians 2:15-
16 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: ...
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles
that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway:
for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Hebrews 11:36-
37 And others had trial of [
cruel]
mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of
bonds and imprisonment: ... They were
stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted,
were slain with the sword: they wandered about
in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
Revelation 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal,
I saw under the altar
the souls of them that were
slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
