Bible Cross References
that seek
Jeremiah 12:5
If you have run with footmen, and they wore you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in the land of peace, then how will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Yea, they have called out a multitude after you. Do not believe them, though they speak pleasant things to you.
Jeremiah 20:10
For I have heard the whisperings of many, terror is all around. Proclaim, they say, and we will report it. Everyone at peace with me is watching for me to stumble and fall, saying, Perhaps he will be lured away, and we shall prevail against him, and shall take our revenge on him.
Micah 7:6
for the son dishonors the father; the daughter rises up against her mother; the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Matthew 10:21
And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and put them to death.
Matthew 10:34-36
34
Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
35
For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36
and a man's enemies will be those of his own household.
Luke 4:24
And He said, Truly, I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
Prophesy
Isaiah 30:10
who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deception;
Amos 2:12
But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.
Amos 7:13-16
13
But do not again prophesy at Bethel any more, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.
14
Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor was I the son of a prophet, but I was a herdsman and one gathering sycamore fruit.
15
And Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.
16
Now, therefore, hear the Word of Jehovah: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.
Micah 2:6-11
6
Do not prophesy as you prophesy, you say. So they shall not prophesy to you; they shall not take away reproaches.
7
You who are named House of Jacob, is the Spirit of Jehovah limited? Are these His doings? Do not My Words do good to the one who walks uprightly?
8
Even recently My people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off an inner robe before an outer garment, from those who pass by securely, as those returning from war.
9
You have thrown the women of My people out from their pleasant houses; you have taken away My honor forever from their children.
10
Rise up and depart. This is not your rest, for it is unclean. It shall destroy with grievous destruction.
11
If a man walks with a spirit of deception and lies saying, I will prophesy to you for wine and for strong drink, he shall even be a prophet for this people.
thou
Jeremiah 20:1
Now Pashur, the son of Immer the priest (he was chief officer in the house of Jehovah), heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Jeremiah 20:2
Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 38:1-6
1
And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,
2
Thus says Jehovah, He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. But he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life as a prize, and shall live.
3
Thus says Jehovah: This city shall be given and bestowed into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall seize it.
4
Therefore the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but their harm.
5
Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand. For the king cannot do a thing against you.
6
And they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And there was no water in the pit, only mud. So Jeremiah sank into the mud.
Matthew 21:35
And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
Matthew 22:6
And the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.
Matthew 23:34-37
34
Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,
35
in order that on you may come all the righteous blood poured out upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36
Truly, I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.
37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one 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!
Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be allowed to happen for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.
Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one 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 brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
Acts 7:51
You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they, who received the Law by the command of angels and did not keep it, killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,