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Matthew 21:34-36
When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.
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Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They flung Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
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2 Chronicles 36 15-2 Chronicles 36 16
But Yahweh, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of His messengers, sending them time and time again, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.
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Jeremiah 29:26-27
‘ The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest to be the chief officer in the temple of the Lord, responsible for every madman who acts like a prophet. You must confine him in the stocks and an iron collar.So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who has been acting like a prophet among you?
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Jeremiah 37:15-16
The officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and stayed there many days.
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Zechariah 7:9-13
“ The Lord of Hosts says this: Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the Lord of Hosts.Just as He had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen,” says the Lord of Hosts.
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1 Kings 22 24
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah in the face, and demanded,“ Did the Spirit of the Lord leave me to speak to you?”
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Luke 13:34
“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
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2 Chronicles 16 10
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.
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Jeremiah 20:2
So Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
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Jeremiah 25:3-7
“ From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day— 23 years— the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed.The Lord sent all His servants the prophets to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed or even paid attention.He announced,‘ Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds. Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and forever.Do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.“‘ But you would not obey Me’— this is the Lord’s declaration—‘ in order that you might provoke Me to anger by the work of your hands and bring disaster on yourselves.’
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Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another— to Him who was raised from the dead— that we may bear fruit for God.
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Hosea 6:4-6
What am I going to do with you, Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, Judah? Your loyalty is like the morning mist and like the early dew that vanishes.This is why I have used the prophets to cut them down; I have killed them with the words of My mouth. My judgment strikes like lightning.For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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Luke 11:47-50
“ Woe to you! You build monuments to the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.Because of this, the wisdom of God said,‘ I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—
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2 Chronicles 24 19-2 Chronicles 24 21
Nevertheless, He sent them prophets to bring them back to the Lord; they admonished them, but the people would not listen.The Spirit of God took control of Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood above the people and said to them,“ This is what God says,‘ Why are you transgressing the Lord’s commands and you do not prosper? Because you have abandoned the Lord, He has abandoned you.’”But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
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Jeremiah 2:30
I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.
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Psalms 1:3
He is like a tree planted beside streams of water that bears its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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Jeremiah 35:15
Time and time again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: Turn, each one from his evil way of life, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not pay attention or obey Me.
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Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said to themselves,‘ Let’s fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain, both early and late, in its season, who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
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Mark 12:2-5
At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.Again he sent another slave to them, and they hit him on the head and treated him shamefully.Then he sent another, and they killed that one. He also sent many others; they beat some and they killed some.
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Judges 6:8-10
the Lord sent a prophet to them. He said to them,“ This is what the Lord God of Israel says:‘ I brought you out of Egypt and out of the place of slavery.I delivered you from the power of Egypt and the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.I said to you: I am Yahweh your God. Do not fear the gods of the Amorites whose land you live in. But you did not obey Me.’”
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Nehemiah 9:30
You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit warned them through Your prophets, but they would not listen. Therefore, You handed them over to the surrounding peoples.
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Jeremiah 26:2-6
“ This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all Judah’s cities that are coming to worship there. Do not hold back a word.Perhaps they will listen and return— each from his evil way of life— so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen to Me by living according to My instruction that I set before youand by listening to the words of My servants the prophets I have been sending you time and time again, though you did not listen,I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 44:4-5
So I sent you all My servants the prophets time and time again, saying: Don’t do this detestable thing that I hate.But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods.
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2 Kings 17 13
Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying,“ Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.”
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John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
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Zechariah 1:3-6
So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”— this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“ and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”— this is the Lord’s declaration.“ Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?But didn’t My words and My statutes that I commanded My servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? They repented and said: As the Lord of Hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so He has dealt with us.”
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Jeremiah 26:20-24
Another man was also prophesying in the name of Yahweh— Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like all those of Jeremiah.King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.But King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor and certain other men with him went to Egypt.They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.But Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
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Jeremiah 38:4-6
The officials then said to the king,“ This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”King Zedekiah said,“ Here he is; he’s in your hands since the king can’t do anything against you.”So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
