TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
543 references in this topic.
Genesis 3:15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”Genesis 4:8Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” It happened when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.Genesis 19:9They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.Genesis 49:23The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:Exodus 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.Exodus 17:4Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”Judges 6:28When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built.Judges 6:29They said one to another, “Who has done this thing?” When they inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”Judges 6:30Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.”Judges 6:31Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him, let him be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because someone has broken down his altar.”Judges 6:32Therefore on that day he named him Jerub-Baal, saying, “Let Baal contend against him, because he has broken down his altar.”1 Kings 18:4for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)1 Kings 18:10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.1 Kings 22:26The king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son.2 Kings 1:9Then the king sent a captain of fifty with his fifty to him. He went up to him; and behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, “Man of God, the king has said, ‘Come down!’”2 Kings 2:23He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!”2 Kings 6:31Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day.”2 Chronicles 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.2 Chronicles 18:26and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.”’”2 Chronicles 24:21They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.Job 1:9Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?Job 2:4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.Job 2:5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”Job 12:4I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.Job 12:5In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.Job 13:4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.Job 13:7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?Job 13:8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?Job 13:10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.Job 13:11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?Job 13:12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.Job 13:13“Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.Job 16:1Then Job answered,Job 16:2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!Job 16:3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?Job 16:4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,Job 17:2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.Job 19:1Then Job answered,Job 19:2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?Job 19:3You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.Job 19:4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.Job 19:5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.Job 30:2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?Job 30:3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.Job 30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.Job 30:5They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;Job 30:6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.Job 30:7Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.Job 30:8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.Job 30:9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.Job 30:10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.Psalm 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?Psalm 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,Psalm 2:3“Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”Psalm 2:4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.Psalm 2:5Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Page 1Next →