The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

园户拿住仆人，打了一个，杀了一个，用石头打死一个。

园户拿住仆人，打了一个，杀了一个，用石头打死了一个。

园户拿住仆人，打了一个，杀了一个，用石头打死了一个。

但那些佃户却抓住他的奴仆，打伤一个，杀死一个，又用石头打死了一个。

佃户却抓住他的仆人，打伤一个，杀了一个，又用石头打死一个。

但那些农夫抓住他的奴仆，打了一个，杀了一个，还用石头砸死一个。

園戶拿住僕人，打了一個，殺了一個，用石頭打死一個。

園戶拿住僕人，打了一個，殺了一個，用石頭打死了一個。

園戶拿住僕人，打了一個，殺了一個，用石頭打死了一個。

但那些佃戶卻抓住他的奴僕，打傷一個，殺死一個，又用石頭打死了一個。

佃戶卻抓住他的僕人，打傷一個，殺了一個，又用石頭打死一個。

園工卻拿住了他的奴僕，打了一個，殺了一個，扔石頭打死了一個。

但那些農夫抓住他的奴僕，打了一個，殺了一個，還用石頭砸死一個。

農夫執其僕、扑一、殺一、石擊一、

農夫執其僕、扑一、殺一、石擊一、

園夫執其僕、撲一、殺一、石擊一、

園戶執之、擊其一、殺其一、更以石斃其一。

“ The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

“ But the renters grabbed his slaves. They beat one of them. They killed another. They threw stones at the third to kill him.

And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

And the vine growers took his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

Others experienced mockings and scourgings, as well as bonds and imprisonment.They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

But the LORD, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again, for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the LORD’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.

So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!“ Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.Truly I tell you, all these things will come on this generation.“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Wasn’t it reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the LORD’s prophets? I hid a hundred of the prophets of the LORD, fifty men to a cave, and I provided them with food and water.

King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.But King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor and certain other men with him went to Egypt.They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.But Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.

I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.

“ From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day— twenty-three years— the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed.The LORD sent all his servants the prophets to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed or even paid attention.He announced,‘ Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds. Live in the land the LORD gave to you and your ancestors long ago and forever.Do not follow other gods to serve them and to bow in worship to them, and do not anger me by the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.“‘ But you have not obeyed me’— this is the LORD’s declaration—‘ with the result that you have angered me by the work of your hands and brought disaster on yourselves.’

Asa was enraged with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple.King Joash didn’t remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said,“ May the LORD see and demand an account.”

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah came up, hit Micaiah on the cheek, and demanded,“ Did the Spirit of the LORD leave me to speak to you?”

and took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to a cave, and provided them with food and water when Jezebel slaughtered the LORD’s prophets.

So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying,“ May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow!”

Yet it is necessary that I travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us. They displease God and are hostile to everyone,by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

He replied,“ I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Armies, but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”