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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 stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:59)

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Stoning,

Sword,

To Tempt; Temptation

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stoned.

1 Kings 21:10,13‑15• ¹⁰{i}and 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.{/i}
¹³{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And they sent to Jezebel saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And 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.{/i} (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 commandment of the king {i}in the court of the house of Jehovah.{/i} (2 Chron. 24:21)

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

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Matt. 23:37• ³⁷{i}Jerusalem, 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!{/i} (Matt. 23:37)

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Luke 13:34• ³⁴Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the [city] that killeth the prophets, and stoneth 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 up stones, that they might stone him.
³²Jesus answered them, Many good works I showed you from the Father: on account of 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 cast out of the city and stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul,
⁵⁹and stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. (Acts 7:58‑59)

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Acts 14:19• ¹⁹But there arrived Jews from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged [him] without the city, supposing that he was dead. (Acts 14:19)

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2 Cor. 11:25• ²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; (2 Cor. 11:25)

were slain.

1 Sam. 22:17‑19• ¹⁷{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And 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.{/i}
¹⁹{i}And 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.{/i} (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 an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water);
¹³{i}Was 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?{/i} (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 withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
¹⁰And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah 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, even I, only am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.
¹⁴{i}And he said,{/i} I have been very jealous {i}for Jehovah the God of hosts{/i}; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I, only am left; and they seek my life to take it away. (1 Kings 19:1,10,14)

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

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

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Lam. 4:13‑14• ¹³Because of the sins of her prophets,{HR}The iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
¹⁴They wandered blind in the streets, they were defiled with blood,{HR}So that men could not touch their garments. (Lam. 4:13‑14)

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Matt. 23:35‑37• ³⁵{i}so 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.{/i}
³⁶{i}Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.{/i}
³⁷{i}Jerusalem, 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!{/i} (Matt. 23:35‑37)

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Luke 11:51‑54• ⁵¹from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple; yea, I say unto 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 {i}not{/i} 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 vehemently, 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 did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers, (Acts 7:52)

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

in sheepskins.

2 Kings 1:8• ⁸{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Kings 1:8)

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

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Rev. 11:3• ³And I will give {i}efficacy{/i} to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred {i}and{/i} sixty days, clothed with sackcloth. (Rev. 11:3)

being destitute.

Heb. 12:1‑3• ¹Therefore let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the readily besetting sin, run with endurance the race that is set before us,
²looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God.
³For consider well him that endured so great contradiction by sinners against himself, that ye weary not, fainting in your souls. (Heb. 12:1‑3)

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Zech. 13:9• ⁹And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. {i}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.{/i} (Zech. 13:9)

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Matt. 8:20• ²⁰{i}And 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.{/i} (Matt. 8:20)

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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
¹⁰we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
¹¹Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
¹²and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
¹³slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 11:23‑27• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often.
²⁴From Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one;
²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
²⁶by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble;
²⁷in 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 am I strong. (2 Cor. 12:10)

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James 5:10‑11• ¹⁰Take, brethren, [for] an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of [the] Lord.
¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who endured. Ye heard of the endurance of Job, and saw [the] Lord's end; for the Lord is full of compassion, and merciful. (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

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