And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.