Jeremiah 2:30

Bible in Basic English 1965

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

2 Chronicles 24:21

But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

Isaiah 1:5

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

Isaiah 9:13

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

Jeremiah 31:18

Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

Jeremiah 46:14

Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Jeremiah 7:28

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

Lamentations 4:13

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.

Ezekiel 24:13

As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.

Daniel 9:13

As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

Zephaniah 3:2

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

Matthew 23:29

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

Revelation 16:9

And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.