9 Bible Verses about Prophets Killed

So you testify to what your forefathers did and approve it, because they killed them and you build monuments for them.

But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.'

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate monuments for the upright,

and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have been sharers with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

So you are witnessing against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone have been left, and they are trying to kill me."

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; and who continue to displease God and show themselves in opposition to all mankind,

Because they have shed the blood of your people and prophets, you have given them blood to drink; they deserve it."