13 Bible Verses about Prophets Killed

Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. They killed them and you build their tombs.

I must go on my way today, tomorrow and the following day. It would not be right that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous.

You claim that you would not have been involved with your fathers when they spilled the blood of the prophets.

You witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you kill the prophets and stone the messengers who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings. But you were not willing!

Jehovah, they have killed your prophets, and torn down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life. (1 Kings 19:14, 18)

They killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out. They did not please God and are contrary to all men.

They have shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets. You give them blood to drink for they deserve it.

When Jezebel massacred the prophets of Jehovah, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and hid them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.

Have you not heard that when Jezebel was killing Jehovah's prophets I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?

Look, O Jehovah! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple!

You are to kill your master the king of the house of Ahab. I am punishing Jezebel for murdering my prophets and my other servants.