1 Kings 18:4

4and awhen Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:13

13Has it not been told my lord what I did bwhen 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 19:2

2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, cSo may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

1 Kings 19:10

10He said, “I have been very djealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, ethrown down your altars, and fkilled your prophets with the sword, gand I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Kings 22:24

24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near hand struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”

2 Chronicles 16:10

10Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him iin the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

2 Chronicles 24:21-22

21But jthey conspired against him, kand by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord. 22Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see land avenge!”
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Matthew 5:12

12 nRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for oso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 23:31-37

31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are psons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 qFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33You serpents, ryou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to shell? 34 tTherefore uI send you vprophets and wise men and wscribes, xsome of whom you will kill and crucify, and ysome you will zflog in your synagogues and aapersecute from town to town, 35so that on you may come all abthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous acAbel to the blood of adZechariah the son of Barachiah,
Some manuscripts omit  the son of Barachiah
whom you murdered between afthe sanctuary and agthe altar.
36Truly, I say to you, ahall these things will come upon this generation.

Lament over Jerusalem

37 ai“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that ajkills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have akgathered alyour children together amas a hen gathers her brood anunder her wings, and aoyou were not willing!
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