“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”
The apostle proposes here a plausible objection, which might be urged against the divine conduct in casting off the Jewish nation (Rom 11:1): "Hath God cast away his people? Is the rejection total and final? Are they all abandoned to wrath and ruin, and that eternal?
Commenting on Romans 11:1-32
Lord, they have killed thy prophets,.... By the order of Jezebel, wife of Ahab king of Israel, Kg1 18:4. This sin of slaying the prophets of the Lord is charged upon the Jews by Christ, Mat 23:31, and by the apostle, Th1 2:15.
Verse 3. Lord, they have killed, etc. This is taken from . The quotation is not literally made, but the sense is preserved. This was a charge which Elijah brought against the whole nation; and the act of killing the prophets he regarded as expressive of the character of the people, or that they were universally given to wickedness.