TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”Genesis 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Genesis 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.Genesis 49:23The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.Exodus 2:15When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.Exodus 17:4Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”Judges 6:28When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.Judges 6:29“Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”Judges 6:30Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”Judges 6:31But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”Judges 6:32So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.1 Kings 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)1 Kings 18:10As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.1 Kings 22:26And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,2 Kings 1:9Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”2 Kings 2:23From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”2 Kings 6:31He announced, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders through this day!”2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.2 Chronicles 18:26and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”2 Chronicles 24:21But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.Job 1:9Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.Job 12:5The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!Job 13:6Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.Job 13:7Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?Job 13:8Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?Job 13:9Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?Job 13:10Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.Job 13:11Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.Job 16:1Then Job answered:Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.Job 16:3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?Job 16:4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.Job 19:1Then Job answered:Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?Job 19:3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.Job 30:2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.Job 30:4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.Job 30:5They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,Job 30:6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.Job 30:7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.Job 30:10They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.Psalm 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?Psalm 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:Psalm 2:3“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”Psalm 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.Psalm 2:5Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:
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