Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
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Gill's Exposition
Lord, they have killed thy prophets,.... By the order of Jezebel, wife of Ahab king of Israel, Kg1 18:4. This sin of slaying the prophets of the Lord is charged upon the Jews by Christ, Mat 23:31, and…
Barnes' Notes
Lord, they have killed ... - This is taken from 1Ki 19:10. The quotation is not literally made, but the sense is preserved. This was a charge which Elijah brought against the whole nation; and the act…
Adam Clarke
Lord, they have killed thy prophets - They will not permit any person to speak unto them in thy name; and they murder those who are faithful to the commission which they have received from…
The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and…
Cambridge Bible
Lord, they have killed, &c. 1Ki 19:10. The quotation is not precisely with either LXX. or Heb.; but substantially exact. The Gr. past verbs here are aorists.
This, and not the evangelical equality of…
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