1 Kings 19:1-4

New American Standard Bible 1995

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

19 Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and ^[a](A)how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. ² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “^(B)So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your ^[b]life as the ^[c]life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” ³ And he ^[d]was afraid and arose and ran for his ^[e]life and came to ^(C)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. ⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a ^[f]juniper tree; and ^(D)he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my ^[g]life, for I am not better than my fathers.”