and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword, and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
He sent and had John beheaded in the prison,
He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the Lord sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
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