12 Bible Verses about Killing Prophets

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have overthrown thine altars; And now I alone am left, and they seek my life.

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

And the vine-dressers seized his slaves, flogged one, killed another, and stoned a third.

"while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.

but they seized him, and flogged him, and sent him away empty-handed. Then he sent another slave to them; and this man they knocked over the head and handled shamefully. And he sent another; and him they killed; and many others; beating some, and killing some.read more.
He had still one, a Son beloved, He sent him last to them, saying, "'They will reverence my Son.' "But those tenants said to themselves. 'Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.' "So they took him and killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.

"'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been their comrades in the murder of the prophets.'

"So you bear witness against yourselves, that you are the descendants of those who slew the prophets!

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become??53 "you who received the law, given through angels, and obeyed it not."

"And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the bottomless pit will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

For men poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, And thou hast given them blood to drink. And this they deserved."