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They were stoneda, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain* with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

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Acts 7:59• ⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:59)

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To Tempt; Temptation

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stoned.

1 Kings 21:10,13‑15• ¹⁰and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
¹³And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
¹⁴And they sent to Jezebel saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
¹⁵And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead. (1 Kings 21:10,13‑15)

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2 Chron. 24:21• ²¹And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah. (2 Chron. 24:21)

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Matt. 21:35• ³⁵And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. (Matt. 21:35)

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Matt. 23:37• ³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Matt. 23:37)

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Luke 13:34• ³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen her brood under her wings, and ye would not. (Luke 13:34)

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John 10:31‑33• ³¹The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.
³²Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewn you of my Father; for which work of them do ye stone me?
³³The Jews answered him, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being a man, makest thyself God. (John 10:31‑33)

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Acts 7:58‑59• ⁵⁸and having cast him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.
⁵⁹And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:58‑59)

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Acts 14:19• ¹⁹But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died. (Acts 14:19)

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2 Cor. 11:25• ²⁵Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep: (2 Cor. 11:25)

were slain.

1 Sam. 22:17‑19• ¹⁷And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
¹⁸And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
¹⁹And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. (1 Sam. 22:17‑19)

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1 Kings 18:4,13• ⁴and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);
¹³Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water? (1 Kings 18:4,13)

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1 Kings 19:1,10,14• ¹And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.
¹⁴And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away. (1 Kings 19:1,10,14)

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Jer. 2:30• ³⁰In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. (Jer. 2:30)

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Jer. 26:23• ²³and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; and he slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people. (Jer. 26:23)

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Lam. 4:13‑14• ¹³It is for the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.
¹⁴They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. (Lam. 4:13‑14)

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Matt. 23:35‑37• ³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
³⁶Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Matt. 23:35‑37)

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Luke 11:51‑54• ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.
⁵²Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.
⁵³And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;
⁵⁴watching him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. (Luke 11:51‑54)

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Acts 7:52• ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers! (Acts 7:52)

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Acts 12:2‑3• ²and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.
³And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:) (Acts 12:2‑3)

in sheepskins.

2 Kings 1:8• ⁸And they said to him, He was a man in a hairy garment, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. (2 Kings 1:8)

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Matt. 3:4• ⁴And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey. (Matt. 3:4)

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Rev. 11:3• ³And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. (Rev. 11:3)

being destitute.

Heb. 12:1‑3• ¹Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
²looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured the cross, having despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
³For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds. (Heb. 12:1‑3)

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Zech. 13:9• ⁹And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God. (Zech. 13:9)

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Matt. 8:20• ²⁰And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven roosting-places; but the Son of man has not where he may lay his head. (Matt. 8:20)

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
¹⁰*We* are fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.
¹¹To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
¹²and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
¹³insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 11:23‑27• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
²⁴From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.
²⁵Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:
²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
²⁷in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:23‑27)

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2 Cor. 12:10• ¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful. (2 Cor. 12:10)

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James 5:10‑11• ¹⁰Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful. (James 5:10‑11)

• Stoning was a punishment enjoined by the law for Jews guilty of idolatry, blasphemy, or other forms of profane rebellion against Jehovah. Hence the peculiar enormity of the death of Naboth and of Zechariah, the wickedness being wholly in those high in authority who perverted it to hurt saints. (“Hebrews 11:37-40” by W. Kelly)

• "Sawn asunder" was indeed a brutality unknown to the Levitical institutions. David was in a wretched state when he dealt thus savagely with the Ammonite prisoners; as the Syrians retorted at a later day with the inhabitants of Gilead. (“Hebrews 11:37-40” by W. Kelly)

• "They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil-entreated": to some a still more trying test of their faith than if suddenly dispatched, whether law or violence compelled them. (“Hebrews 11:37-40” by W. Kelly)

• {v.37-38} He speaks more particularly of the sufferings of faith. (“Faith Overcoming the Present World: Hebrews 11:23-40” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

W. Kelly Translation

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They were stoned, they were sawn asundera, they were tempted, they died by slaughter of sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

WK Translation Notes

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The order differs in MSS. Some have "tempted" before "sawn," the rest in the more common way.