PERSECUTION

–OF JESUS Ge 3:15; Ps 2:1-5; 22:1,2,6-8,11-21; 69:1-21; 109:25; Isa 49:7; 50:6; 52:14; 53:2-5,7-10; Mic 5:1; Mt 2:13; 11:19; 12:14,24; 16:1; 20:22; 22:15; 26:3,4,14-16,59,67; 27:25-30,39-44; Mr 3:6,21,22; 11:18; 12:13; 14:1,48,65; 15:14,34; 16:17; Lu 4:28,29; 6:11; 7:34; 11:15,53,54; 12:50; 13:31; 19:14,47; 20:20; 22:2-5,52,53,63-65; 23:11,23; Joh 5:16; 7:1,7,19,20,30,32; 8:37,40,48,52,59; 10:20,31,39; 11:57; 14:30; 15:18,20,21,24,25; 18:22,23,29,30; 19:6,15; Ac 2:23; 3:13-15; 4:27; 7:52; 13:27-29; Heb 12:2,3; 1Pe 4:1

–OF THE RIGHTEOUS Ge 49:23; Job 1:9; 2:4,5; 12:4,5; Ps 11:2; 37:32; 38:20; 42:3,10; 44:15-18,22; 56:5; 69:10,12; 74:7,8; 94:5; 119:51,61,69,78,85-87,95,110,157,161; Pr 29:10,27; Isa 26:20; 29:20,21; 51:12,13; 59:15; Jer 2:30; 11:19; 15:10; 18:18; 20:7,8; 26:11-14; 50:7; Am 5:10; Hab 1:13; Mt 5:10-12,44; 10:16-18,21-23,28; 20:22,23; 23:34,35; 24:8-10; Mr 9:42; 13:9,11-13; Lu 6:22,23,26; 17:33; 21:12-19; Joh 12:42; 15:18,19; 16:1,2; 17:14; Ac 4:16-20; 5:29,40-42; 7:52; 8:4; 28:22; Ro 8:17,35-37; 1Co 4:9-13; 13:3; 2Co 4:8-12; 6:4,5,8-10; 11:23-27; 12:10; Ga 4:29; 6:12,17; Php 1:12-14,28,29; Col 1:24; 1Th 1:6; 2:2,14,15; 2Th 1:4; 2Ti 1:8,12; 2:9-12; 3:2,3,12; 4:16,17; Heb 10:32-34; 11:25-27,33-38; 12:3,4; 13:13; Jas 2:6; 5:6,10; 1Pe 3:14,16,17; 4:3,4,12-14,16,19; 1Jo 3:1,13; Re 2:3,10,13; 6:9-11; 7:13-17; 12:11; 17:6; 20:4

.See PAUL

.A mode of divine chastisement La 1:3

.Diffuses the gospel Ac 8:1,4; 11:19-21; Php 1:12-14

.Deliverance from Ps 124; 129:1,2

–INSTANCES OF

.Of Abel Ge 4:8; Mt 23:35; 1Jo 3:12

.Of Lot Ge 19:9

.Of Moses Ex 2:15; 17:4

.Of David Ps 31:13; 59:1,2

.Of prophets martyred by Jezebel 1Ki 18:4

.Of Gideon Jud 6:28-32

.Of Elijah 1Ki 18:10; 19; 2Ki 1:9; 2:23

.Of Micaiah 1Ki 22:26; 2Ch 18:26

.Of Elisha 2Ki 6:31

.Of Hanani 2Ch 16:10

.Of Zachariah 2Ch 24:21; Mt 23:35

.Of Job Job 13:4-13; 16:1-4; 17:2; 19:1-5; 30:1-10

.Of Jeremiah Jer 15:10,15; 17:15-18; 18:18-23; 26; 32:2; 33:1; 36:26; 37; 38:1-6

.Of Urijah Jer 26:23

.Of prophets Mt 21:35,36

.Of the three Hebrew young men (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego) of the captivity Da 3:8-23

.Of Daniel Da 6

.Of the Jews Ezr 4; Ne 4

.Of John the Baptist Mt 14:3-12

.Of James Ac 12:2

.Of Simon Mr 15:21

.Of the disciples Joh 9:22,34; 20:19

.Of Lazarus Joh 12:10

.Of the apostles Ac 4:3-18; 5:18-42; 12:1-19; Re 1:9

.Of Stephen Ac 6:9-15; 7

.Of the ekklesia (body of Christ) Ac 8:1; 9:1-14; Ga 1:13

.Of Timothy Heb 13:23

.Of John Re 1:9

.Of Antipas Re 2:13

.Of the congregation at Smyrna Re 2:8-10