Romans 11:2-4 God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah; how he pleads with God against Israel, saying:

ABU⁽ⁱ⁾ ² God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah; how he pleads with God against Israel, saying: ³ Lord they killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I was left alone, and they seek my life. ⁴ But what says the answer of God to him? I reserved to myself seven thousand men, who bowed not the knee to Baal.