Martyrdom

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningPsalms 44:22Matthew 10:21Matthew 10:22Matthew 10:39Matthew 16:25Matthew 23:34Matthew 23:35Matthew 24:9Mark 13:12Luke 9:24Luke 11:50Luke 21:16Luke 21:17John 12:25Romans 8:361 Corinthians 13:3Revelation 6:9–11Revelation 11:7–12Revelation 12:11Revelation 16:6
• See Persecution
• INSTANCES OF
• AbelGenesis 4:3–8
• Prophets killed by Jezebel1 Kings 18:41 Kings 18:13
• Zechariah2 Chronicles 24:212 Chronicles 24:22
• John the BaptistMark 6:18–28
• Jesus
• See Jesus
• StephenActs 7:58–60
• James the apostleActs 12:2
• The prophetsMatthew 22:6Matthew 23:35Romans 11:31 Thessalonians 2:15Hebrews 11:32–37

The passages, in Bible order (33)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 4:3–8

   So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

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2. 1 Kings 18:4

   for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 18:41 voice

   “We have no details of Jezebel’s deed of blood. Some have conjectured that it was the answer of Jezebel to Elijah’s threat, and that the command given him to hide in Cherith alone saved him from being one of the victims. This view receives some support from Obadiah’s act and words 1Ki 18:13. Fifty in a cave - The limestone formation of Judaea and Samaria abounds with large natural caverns, the size of which is easily increased by art.

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3. 1 Kings 18:13

   Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD, fifty men per cave, and I provided them with food and water.

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   “When Jezebel slew the prophets - This persecution was probably during the dearth, for as this bad woman would attribute the public calamity to Elijah, not being able to find him, she would naturally wreak her vengeance on the prophets of Jehovah who were within her reach.

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4. 2 Chronicles 24:21

   But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.

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   “Some such thing we read of in the book of Chronicles. For Joash the king of Judah at the age of seven was summoned by Jehoiada the priest to the kingdom and by the witness of Scripture is commended for all his actions as long as the aforesaid priest lived. But hear what Scripture relates of him after Jehoiada's death and how he was puffed up with pride and given over to a most disgraceful state.

   “And they conspired against him,.... Consulted together to take away his life, and got the order of the king to do it: and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord; where he had stood and reproved them; this they did before he went out, while in the temple; and if he is the same Zechariah, as some think, our Lord speaks of, he was slain between the temple porch and the altar, Mat 23:35; see Gill on Mat 23:35.

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5. 2 Chronicles 24:22

   Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 24:222 voices

   “Some such thing we read of in the book of Chronicles. For Joash the king of Judah at the age of seven was summoned by Jehoiada the priest to the kingdom and by the witness of Scripture is commended for all his actions as long as the aforesaid priest lived. But hear what Scripture relates of him after Jehoiada's death and how he was puffed up with pride and given over to a most disgraceful state.

   “The Lord look upon it, and require it - And so he did; for, at the end of that year, the Syrians came against Judah, destroyed all the princes of the people, sent their spoils to Damascus; and Joash, the murderer of the prophet, the son of his benefactor, was himself murdered by his own servants. Here was a most signal display of the Divine retribution. On the subject of the death of this prophet the reader is requested to refer to the note on Mat 23:34, Mat 23:35.

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6. Psalms 44:22

   Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

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7. Matthew 10:21

   Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

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8. Matthew 10:22

   You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 10:221 voice

   “(Verse 22.) But whoever perseveres until the end, he will be saved. For it is not to begin, but to complete virtue.

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9. Matthew 10:39

   Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 10:392 voices

   “Here Jesus calls the departure of life from the body the "loss of life," speaking figuratively. "He who finds his life" refers to anyone who too highly values transitory existence and as it were sells it at a profit. He will face the hands of death when he is sent to unremittable punishment and death.

   “(Verse 38, 39.) And whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. In another Gospel it is written: Whoever does not take up their cross daily. Let us not think that the ardor of faith can be enough once and for all, the cross must always be carried, so that we may always teach ourselves to love Christ.

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10. Matthew 16:25

    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

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    “This may be understood in two ways. First thus; if any lover of this present life spares his life, fearing to die, and supposing that his life is ended with this death; he seeking in this way to save his life, shall lose it, estranging it from life eternal. But if any, despising the present life, shall contend for the truth unto death, he shall lose his life as far as this present life is concerned, but forasmuch as he loses it for Christ, he shall the more save it for life eternal.

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11. Matthew 22:6

    The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

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12. Matthew 23:34

    Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

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    “Wherefore - To show how my prediction, Ye will fill up the measure of your fathers, shall be verified, Behold, I send (I am just going to commission them) prophets, etc. and some ye will kill, (with legal process), and some ye will crucify, pretend to try and find guilty, and deliver them into the hands of the Romans, who shall, through you, thus put them to death. See on Luk 11:49 (note).

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13. Matthew 23:35

    And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

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    “Concerning the Abel here spoken of, there is no doubt that it is he whom his brother Cain murdered. He is proved to have been righteous, not only by this judgment of the Lord, but by the passage in Genesis, which says that his offerings were accepted by God. But we must enquire who is this Zacharias, son of Barachias, because we read of many Zachariases; and that we might not mistake, here it is added, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

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14. Matthew 24:9

    Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

    ›Commentary on Matthew 24:91 voice

    “(V. 9.) Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. The apostles are a representation of all believers, not that the apostles themselves will be found in physical form at that time.

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15. Mark 6:18–28

    For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”

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16. Mark 13:12

    Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

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    "But you will be betrayed by parents and brothers, and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death." Evils inflicted by strangers cause lesser pain. But those torments rage more fiercely within us which we suffer from those in whose minds we had confidence, because along with bodily harm, the evils of lost love torment us.

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