9 Bible Verses about Prophets Killed

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

But I must go on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem.'

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,

and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.'

So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, I am the only one left and they are trying to take my life."

who killed the Lord Jesus and persecuted the prophets and us; who displease God, and in their hostility to all mankind

for they shed the blood of your people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, as they deserve."