I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.” ¹ 

Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces ¹  all of these metals, ²  so it will break in pieces and crush the others. ³ 

“How long will you torment me ¹  and crush ²  me with your words? ³ 

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” ¹ 

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, ¹  and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.” ² 

Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.

The first disappeared ¹  and I said, “He has surely been torn to pieces.” I have not seen him since.

It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, ¹  so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces ²  as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ¹  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ² 

You will break them ¹  with an iron scepter; ²  you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’” ³ 

The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. ¹ 

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

Indeed, look! The Lord is giving the command. ¹  He will smash the large house to bits, and the small house into little pieces.

They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.

So ¹  Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

Everyone ¹  ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

He also told them a parable: ¹  “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews ²  it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn ³  the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. ⁴ 

He recognized it and exclaimed, “It is my son’s tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! ¹  Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”