Romans 11:3
Adonoi, they have killed your Nevi'im, they have torn down your mizbe'achot (altars), and I alone have been left, and they seek my life. + 11:3 1Kgs 19:10
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1 Kings 18:13Was it not told to adoni what I did when Izevel slaughtered the Nevi'im of Hashem, how I hid a hundred ish of Hashemʼs Nevi'im by fifty in a me'arah, and fed them with lechem and mayim?
1 Kings 19:10And he said, 1 I have been very kina (jealous, zealous) 1 for Hashem Elohei Tzivos; 1 for the Bnei Yisroel have forsaken Thy Brit (Covenant), + 19:10 i.e., Sinai Covenant 1 thrown down Thine mizbechot, 1 and slain Thy nevi'im with the cherev; 1 and I, even I only, am left; 1 and they seek my nefesh, to take it away.
Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I struck your banim; 1 they received no musar; + 2:30 cf Isa 53:5 1 your own cherev hath devoured your nevi'im, 1 like a destroying lion. 1
Matthew Henry on Romans 11:2-33
The State of the Jews; The State of the Gentiles; The Gentiles Warned; The Future Conversion of the Jews. ( a. d. 58.) 1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my… Read the whole commentary →