Romans 11:4

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But what was God’s answer to him? "I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."

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  • 1 Kgs 19:18 : 18 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'
  • 2 Kgs 10:19-20 : 19 Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. Let no one fail to come, for I am going to hold a great sacrifice to Baal. Anyone who fails to come will not live." But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal. 20 Jehu commanded, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they announced it.
  • Jer 19:5 : 5 They have built high places to Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind.
  • Hos 2:8 : 8 Therefore, I will block her way with thorns and build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.
  • Hos 13:1 : 1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he became guilty by worshiping Baal and died.
  • Zeph 1:4 : 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every remnant of Baal from this place, the names of the pagan priests along with the priests.
  • Num 25:3 : 3 Israel yoked itself to Baal of Peor, and the LORD's anger burned against Israel.
  • Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal Peor; for every man who followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God destroyed him from among you.
  • Judg 2:13 : 13 They abandoned the LORD and worshipped Baal and the Ashtaroth.
  • 1 Kgs 16:31 : 31 As if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he also married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

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  • 1 Kgs 19:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17Anyone who escapes the sword of Hazael will be put to death by Jehu, and anyone who escapes the sword of Jehu will be put to death by Elisha.

    18Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.'

  • Rom 11:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    2God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?

    3"Lord, they have killed Your prophets, and have torn down Your altars. I alone am left, and they seek my life."

  • Rom 11:5
    77%

    5So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

  • 1 Kgs 18:21-25
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    75%

    21Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing.

    22Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left as a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

    23Let two bulls be given to us. Let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and lay it on the wood without setting fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood without setting fire to it.

    24Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire—He is God." All the people answered, "What you say is good."

    25Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, 'Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not set fire to the wood.'

  • 1 Kgs 19:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10He replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.'

    11The LORD said, 'Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.' Then a great and powerful wind tore through the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

  • 1 Kgs 19:14
    72%

    14Elijah replied, 'I have been very zealous for the LORD God of Hosts, because the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to take my life.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18Elijah replied, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, by abandoning the commandments of the LORD and following the Baals.

    19Now summon all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel, along with the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table.

  • Rom 9:27
    69%

    27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: 'Though the number of the children of Israel be like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.'

  • 1 Kgs 18:36-37
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    68%

    36At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached and said, "LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You are God in Israel, that I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your command.

    37Answer me, LORD, answer me, so that this people will know that You, LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back to Yourself.

  • Isa 17:6
    68%

    6Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that is beaten: two or three berries at the top of the highest branch, four or five on its fruitful branches, declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

  • Acts 15:17
    67%

    17so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, including all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord, who does these things'

  • 1 Kgs 18:39-40
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    39When all the people saw it, they fell facedown and said, "The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!"

    40Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal. Do not let any of them escape." So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    67%

    9But Obadiah said, "What have I done wrong that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be killed?"

  • 1 Kgs 17:8
    66%

    8Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 10:23
    66%

    23Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and make sure that no servants of the LORD are here with you—only the worshipers of Baal."

  • 2 Kgs 1:3
    66%

    3But the angel of the LORD told Elijah the Tishbite, 'Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?"'

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."

    2And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Rom 11:7
    66%

    7What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The chosen obtained it, but the rest were hardened.

  • 2 Kgs 1:13
    66%

    13A third time, the king sent a captain with fifty men. This third captain approached, fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, 'Man of God, please let my life and the lives of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your eyes.'

  • 1 Kgs 22:6
    66%

    6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, 'Should I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?' They said, 'Go up, and the Lord will give it into the king’s hands.'

  • 2 Kgs 10:19
    66%

    19Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. Let no one fail to come, for I am going to hold a great sacrifice to Baal. Anyone who fails to come will not live." But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.

  • Judg 7:7
    66%

    7The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped, I will save you and hand Midian over to you. Let all the others go home."

  • 1 Kgs 14:7
    66%

    7Go and tell Jeroboam, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.

  • 2 Chr 18:5
    66%

    5So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, 'Shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or should I refrain?' They answered, 'Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.'

  • 2 Kgs 7:13
    65%

    13One of his servants replied, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses that are left here. Their fate will be like that of all the Israelites who are left—yes, they will be like all the Israelites who have perished. Let us send them out to find out what has happened."

  • Acts 7:42
    65%

    42But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

  • 1 Kgs 18:13
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    13Has it not been reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD's prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with bread and water.

  • 1 Kgs 18:11
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    11Now you tell me, 'Go and say to your master, Elijah is here!'

  • 2 Kgs 14:27
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    27But the LORD had not said He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

  • 2 Kgs 10:10
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    10Know, then, that not a word of the LORD will fall to the ground that He spoke concerning the house of Ahab. The LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah."

  • Judg 7:2
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    2The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people with you for me to hand Midian over to them, lest Israel boast against me, claiming, 'My own strength has delivered me.'

  • 2 Kgs 10:21
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    21Then Jehu sent messengers throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came; not a single one remained behind. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from one end to the other.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7My people are determined to turn from Me. Even though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them together.

  • 2 Kgs 1:7
    65%

    7The king asked them, 'What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?'

  • 1 Kgs 21:28
    65%

    28Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 3:13
    65%

    13Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have to do with each other? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother." But the king of Israel said to him, "No, because it is the LORD who has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab."

  • Ezek 9:8
    65%

    8As they were striking, I was left alone. I fell face down and cried out, 'Ah, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in your outpouring of wrath on Jerusalem?'