Matthew 23:37

Lighthouse Bible 2006

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and thrust your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets which testified against them to turn them to you, and they committed great provocations.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Psalm 36:7

How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 57:1

​Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities pass over.

Psalm 63:7

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

Psalm 91:4

He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.

Isaiah 5:4

What could have been done more for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain have I stricken your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and threw his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 32:31

For this city has been to me as a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even until this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and correct your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not turned your ear, nor listened to me.

Jeremiah 36:26

But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts reside within you?

Jeremiah 44:4

However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, so that my soul does not depart from you; so that I do not make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

Hosea 11:2

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to sculptured images.

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

Hosea 7:13

Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

Zechariah 1:4

Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried out, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.

Matthew 22:3

And sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding: and they would not come.

Matthew 22:6

And the rest took his servants, and treated them badly, and killed them.

Matthew 23:30

And say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Matthew 23:31

Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of those who killed the prophets.

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Luke 15:28

And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore his father came out, and appealed to him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are opposed to all men:

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

Ruth 2:12

The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.