9 Bible Verses about Prophets Killed

thus you testify and consent to what your fathers did, for they killed and you build.

But I must journey on, to-day, to-morrow, and the next day; it would never do for a prophet to perish except in Jerusalem!

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,

and you say 'If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

So you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are sons of those who killed the prophets!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

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

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who harassed ourselves, who offend God and oppose all men

They poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink! They deserve it!"