Martyrdom

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Luke 11:51 NT

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Revelation 18:20-24 NT

  “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.” A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great…

• Genesis 4:8 OT

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• 1 John 3:12 NT

  unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

• 1 Samuel 22:18 OT

  The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 22:19 OT

  He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Kings 18:4 OT

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• 1 Kings 19:10 OT

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to…

• Hebrews 11:37 NT

  They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

• Jeremiah 26:23 OT

  and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

• Mark 6:27 NT

  Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

• John 21:18 NT

  Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

• John 21:19 NT

  Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

• Acts 7:58 NT

  They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

• Acts 9:1 NT

  But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

• Acts 22:4 NT

  I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

• Acts 26:10 NT

  I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

• Acts 12:2 NT

  He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.