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.

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

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.

Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— (niv)

The Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place.But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. (niv)

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (niv)

Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— (niv)

“ But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law. They killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies. (niv)

So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!“ You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. (niv)

Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord? I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water. (niv)

When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and officials heard his words, the king was determined to put him to death. But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear to Egypt.King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Akbor to Egypt, along with some other men.They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)Furthermore, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death. (niv)

“ In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion. (niv)

For twenty-three years— from the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day— the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.They said,“ Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors for ever and ever.Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”“ But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord,“ and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.” (niv)

Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people. (niv)

But they plotted against him, and by order of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.King Joash did not remember the kindness Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had shown him but killed his son, who said as he lay dying,“ May the Lord see this and call you to account.” (niv)

Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face.“ Which way did the spirit from the Lord go when he went from me to speak to you?” he asked. (niv)

While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.) (niv)

So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say,“ May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” (niv)

In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day— for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. (niv)

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. (niv)

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyonein their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last. (niv)

He replied,“ I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” (niv)