Hebrews 11:37 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

BSB

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ASV

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

KJV

They were stoned, 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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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

ON LAZARUS AND DIVES 86 (420)

Moses and the prophets went about in goatskins, wandering in their caves and in holes in the ground. They were poor men just like Lazarus, and they suffered calamities and endured hunger.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

They were stoned,.... As Naboth, by the order of Ahab, 1Ki 21:13, Zachariah in the court of the Lord's house; 2Ch 24:21 and the character of Jerusalem is, that she stoned the prophets that were sent unto her, Mat 23:37. They were sawn asunder; to which there seems to be an allusion in Mat 24:51. There is no instance of any good men being so used in Scripture: perhaps reference is had to some that suffered thus in the time of Antiochus.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

They were sawn asunder - As, according to the tradition of the Jews, Isaiah was by Manasseh. Were tempted - Torments and death are mentioned alternately. Every way; by threatenings, reproaches, tortures, the variety of which cannot be expressed; and again by promises and allurements.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

They were stoned - A common method of punishment among the Jews; see the notes on Mat 21:35, Mat 21:44. Thus, Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, was stoned; see 2Ch 24:21; compare 1Ki 21:1-14. It is not improbable that this was often resorted to in times of popular tumult, as in the case of Stephen; Act 7:59; compare Joh 10:31; Act 14:5. In the time of the terrible persecutions under Antiochus Epiphanes, and under Manasseh, such instances also probably occurred. They were sawn asunder - It is commonly supposed that Isaiah was put to death in this manner.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐλιθάσθησαν,	elithasthēsan	They were stoned,	G3034 →
ἐπρίσθησαν,	epristhēsan	they were sawed in two	G4249 →
ἐν	en	by	G1722 →
φόνῳ	phonō	slaughter	G5408 →
μαχαίρης	machairēs	of [the] sword	G3162 →
ἀπέθανον·	apethanon	they were killed;	G599 →
περιῆλθον	periēlthon	they wandered	G4022 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
μηλωταῖς,	mēlōtais	sheepskins,	G3374 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
αἰγείοις	aigeiois	goats’	G122 →
δέρμασιν,	dermasin	skins,	G1192 →
ὑστερούμενοι,	husteroumenoi	being destitute,	G5302 →
θλιβόμενοι,	thlibomenoi	being oppressed,	G2346 →
κακουχούμενοι,	kakouchoumenoi	being mistreated,	G2558 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Kings 19:10
“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am…
leads to
- 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.)
- Exodus 34:14
  For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Exodus 20:5
  You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
- 1 Kings 18:30
  Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people approached him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
- Romans 11:2–4
  God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
Through
2 Kings 1:8
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.” “It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
leads to
- Matthew 3:4
  John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- Zechariah 13:4
  And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
Through
Jeremiah 26:23
They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him put to the sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:30
  “I have struck your sons in vain; they accepted no discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a voracious lion.”