10 He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. vFor the people of Israel have wforsaken your covenant, xthrown down your altars, and ykilled your prophets with the sword, and zI, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
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Romans 11:3
“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”
Deuteronomy 29:25
Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Jeremiah 22:9
And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”
1 Kings 18:30
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down.
1 Kings 18:13
Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?
1 Kings 18:22
Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal’s prophets are 450 men.
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