Was it not told my lord what I did when Jez´ebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
Matthew 21:35 - King James Version - American Edition And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. American Standard Version (1901) And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Common English Bible But the tenant farmers grabbed his servants. They beat some of them, and some of them they killed. Some of them they stoned to death. Catholic Public Domain Version And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. |
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jez´ebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
for it was so, when Jez´ebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadi´ah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
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.
Then Jez´ebel sent a messenger unto Eli´jah, 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 tomorrow about this time.
But Zedeki´ah the son of Chena´anah went near, and smote Micai´ah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?
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.
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.
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
and when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
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: