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Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day, and sat down under a broom bush and prayed that he might die.

“I’ve had enough,” he told the Lord. “Take away my life. I’ve got to die sometime, and it might as well be now.”[a]

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  1. 1 Kings 19:4 and it might as well be now, literally, “I am no better than my fathers.”

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