Romans 11:3

“Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have broken down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.

In Context

2God didn’t reject his people, whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

4But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:13Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the LORD’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 19:10He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

Jeremiah 2:30“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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 →

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