1. Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about Elijah, what the scripture says—how he appeals to God against Israel?
3. “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!”
4. But what does the divine response say to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”