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- Although there are occasional incidents in which humans are killed by lions, such events are unusual and are often provoked by the victims, for the habitual man-eating lion is rare. Such evidence as the Biblical record provides suggests that this was true also at a time when lions were fairly familiar objects of the countryside.
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New Living Translation. But since these foreign settlers did not worship the LORD when they first arrived, the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. English Standard Version. And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD.
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These people, imperfectly instructed in the creed of the...
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And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the...
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Hoshea the Last King of Israel. 1 In the twelfth year of the...
- 2 Kings 15
Verse 37. - In those days the Lord began to send against...
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And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria...
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Lions » Disobedient prophet killed by. 1 Kings 13:24-28. Now when he had gone, a lion met him on the way and killed him, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body.
A Lion Kills the Man of God. 23 After the meal was over, and the man had eaten food and had drunk water, the old prophet saddled the donkey for him—that is, for the man of God whom he had brought back. 24 Not long after the man of God[a] had left, a lion met him along the road and killed him.
The settlers said to the king of Assyria, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.” Holman Christian Standard Bible
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- The Great Persecution
The myth of constant persecution largely stems from two works written in the early fourth century A.D., On the Deaths of the Persecutors by Lactantius, a Christian professor of Latin, and the Church History of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in modern-day Israel. These authors were living in the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, and t...
The punishments meted out to Christians who admitted their religion and refused to sacrifice varied enormously. In the first and early second centuries A.D., Christians who were Roman citizens, including the apostle Paul, were executed by beheading, which was a quick and merciful end. Later in the second century, beheading was a privilege to which ...
The pattern of localised persecution changed in A.D. 250. In that year, the emperor Decius issued an edict that ordered all Romans to sacrifice to the gods and present a certificate to prove that they had done so. This edict was prompted by serious barbarian invasions. Decius believed that Romans needed to unite to show support for the gods in orde...
After Valerian, the Roman state took no official action against the Christians for more than forty years. In A.D. 303, however, the emperor Diocletian and his junior co-emperor Galerius, both former soldiers who viewed Christianity as a threat to traditional Roman beliefs, initiated what has become known as the “Great Persecution”. In a series of e...
But since these Assyrian colonists did not worship the Lord when they first arrived, the Lord sent lions among them to kill some of them. The king of Assyria brought in people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and relocated them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the exiled Israelites.
26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.
