The Death of Every Prophet in the Bible

Every prophet in the Bible and how they died. Prophet one, Isaiah, the greatest prophet in the Old Testament. He wrote some of the most famous prophecies in the entire Bible, including the coming of Jesus 700 years before Jesus was born. Isaiah served under four different kings of Judah. Then came King Manasseh, one of the most evil kings in Israel's

history. Manasseh didn't want to hear God's warnings. When Isaiah rebuked him, Manasseh ordered him executed. But not a quick death. According to ancient accounts recorded in the lives of the prophets, Isaiah hid inside a hollow cedar tree. They found him, and they sawed through the tree and through Isaiah with a wooden saw from top to

bottom. He was sawed completely in half. Hebrews 11:37 references this with the words, "They were sawn in two." The most quoted prophet in the New Testament died in a tree, cut in half by a king he refused to stop warning. Prophet two, Jeremiah. He is called the weeping prophet because his entire ministry was

delivering messages nobody wanted to hear. He warned Israel for over 40 years that disaster was coming if they didn't change. They ignored him. They mocked him. They threw him in a muddy cistern and left him to die. He was rescued, but then dragged to Egypt against his will when Jerusalem fell. In Egypt, he kept

preaching. He told the Jewish exiles there to stop worshipping Egyptian idols. They'd had enough. According to historical tradition, the Jewish community in Egypt stoned Jeremiah to death. The prophet who spent his entire life crying over his people was killed by his own people in a foreign country he never wanted to be in. Prophet three,