Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

I have reserved

Bible References

I have reserved

1 Kings 19:18
Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

Baal

Numbers 25:3
So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord has done in the case of Baal-peor, for all the men who followed Baal-peor, the Lord your God has destroyed them from among you.
Judges 2:13
So they forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
1 Kings 16:31
It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went to serve Baal and worshiped him.
2 Kings 10:19
Now, summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it in cunning, so that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.
Jeremiah 19:5
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind;
Hosea 2:8
“For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil,
And lavished on her silver and gold,
Which they used for Baal.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.
Zephaniah 1:4
“So I will stretch out My hand against Judah
And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place,
And the names of the idolatrous priests along with the priests.

General references

Psalm 44:9
Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.
Isaiah 17:6
Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not reject forever,
Acts 28:24
Some were being persuaded by the things spoken, but others would not believe.