Verse 48

So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
  • Ezek 18:19 : 19 But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.
  • Matt 21:35-38 : 35 And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them. 37 But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. 38 But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.
  • Matt 23:31 : 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
  • Jas 5:10 : 10 Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
  • Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come; 36 And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons: 37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked, 38 Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.