² God ^(A)has not rejected His people whom He ^(B)foreknew. ^(C)Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? ³ “Lord, ^(D)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 ^[a]is the divine response to him? “^(E)I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”