1 Kings 18:4

18:4 When Jezebel was killing ¹  the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

1 Kings 18:20

18:20 Ahab sent messengers to all the Israelites and had the prophets assemble at Mount Carmel.

1 Kings 18:22

18:22 Elijah said to them: ²  “I am the only prophet of the Lord who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.

1 Kings 20:13

The Lord Delivers Israel

20:13 Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Do you see this huge army? ³  Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

1 Kings 20:22

The Lord Gives Israel Another Victory

20:22 The prophet ⁴  visited the king of Israel and instructed him, “Go, fortify your defenses. ⁵  Determine ⁶  what you must do, for in the spring ⁷  the king of Syria will attack ⁸  you.”

1 Kings 20:35

A Prophet Denounces Ahab’s Actions

20:35 One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, “Wound me!” ⁹  But the man refused to wound him.

1 Kings 20:41-42

20:41 The prophet ¹⁰  quickly removed the bandage from his eyes and the king of Israel recognized he was one of the prophets. 20:42 The prophet ¹¹  then said to him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’” ¹² 

1 Kings 22:8

22:8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. ¹³  But I despise ¹⁴  him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. ¹⁵  Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

Romans 11:2-4

11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 11:3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left and they are seeking my life!” ¹⁶  11:4 But what was the divine response ¹⁷  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ¹⁸  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ¹⁹ 

[18:4]  ¹ tn Heb “cutting off.”

[18:22]  ² tn Heb “to the people.”

[20:13]  ³ tn Heb “this great horde.”

[20:22]  ⁴ tn The definite article indicates previous reference, that is, “the prophet mentioned earlier” (see v. 13).

[20:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “strengthen yourself.”

[20:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “know and see.”

[20:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “at the turning of the year.”

[20:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “go up against.”

[20:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “Now a man from the sons of the prophets said to his companion by the word of the Lord, ‘Wound me.’”

[20:41]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the prophet) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:42]  ⁸ tn Heb “Because you sent away the man of my destruction [i.e., that I determined should be destroyed] from [my/your?] hand, your life will be in place of his life, and your people in place of his people.”

[22:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “to seek the Lord from him.”

[22:8]  ⁹ tn Or “hate.”

[22:8]  ¹⁰ tn The words “his name is” are supplied for stylistic reasons.

[11:3]  ⁹ sn A quotation from 1 Kgs 19:10, 14.

[11:4]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the revelation,” “the oracle.”

[11:4]  ¹¹ tn The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anhr), which only exceptionally is used in a generic sense of both males and females. In this context, it appears to be a generic usage (“people”) since when Paul speaks of a remnant of faithful Israelites (“the elect,” v. 7), he is not referring to males only. It can also be argued, however, that it refers only to adult males here (“men”), perhaps as representative of all the faithful left in Israel.

[11:4]  ¹² sn A quotation from 1 Kgs 19:18.