Persecution
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Persecution’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
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Psalms 71:11 OT
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
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Psalms 13:4 OT
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
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Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
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Psalms 7:13 OT
He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
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Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
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“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. When the season for the…
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph. He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that…
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He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?
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1 Kings 19:2 OT
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
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Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the…
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Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against the Jews. They answered Nebuchadnezzar the king, “O king, live for ever! You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that hears the sound of the horn,…
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who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
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Acts 12:1 NT
Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
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Acts 14:5 NT
When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
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concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
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Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
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Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
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Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” Then these presidents and local governors assembled together to the king, and said this to him, “King…
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Acts 4:3 NT
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
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Acts 5:18 NT
and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
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Acts 7:52 NT
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.