Hebrews 11:36

Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment.

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In The King James Version

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

In Context

35Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

37They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used –

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Cross References

Genesis 39:20and he took Joseph and put him into the prison, in the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was left there in prison.

Psalms 105:17he sent before them a man, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:33-40

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to… Read the whole commentary →

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