Matthew 23:37

Modern King James Version

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, 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

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them to turn them to You, and they worked great blasphemies.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

Psalm 36:7

How precious is Your loving-kindness, O God! And the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of Your wing.

Psalm 57:1

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me; for my soul trusts in You; yea, in the shadow of Your wings I will make my hiding-place, until these great troubles pass by.

Psalm 63:7

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

Psalm 91:4

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

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.

Isaiah 50:2

Who knows why I have come, and no one is here? I called and no one answered. Is My hand shortened at all so 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 for thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

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

Jeremiah 26:23

And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed 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 cause of My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before My face;

Jeremiah 35:15

I have also sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending, saying, Return now each man from his evil way, and make your doings good, 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 bowed down your ear, nor listened to Me.

Jeremiah 36:26

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But Jehovah hid them.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

Jeremiah 44:4

But I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate!

Jeremiah 6:8

O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land without people.

Hosea 11:2

As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven 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. Ruin to them! Because they have sinned against Me. Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

Zechariah 1:4

Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil doings. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says Jehovah.

Matthew 22:3

And he 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 spitefully, and killed them.

Matthew 23:30

and say, If we had been 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 sons of those who killed the prophets;

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven is great. 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 entreated him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary 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 marveled with a great marveling.

Ruth 2:12

May Jehovah repay your work, and may a full reward be given you from Jehovah, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.