1 Kings 19:1-8

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Elijah Runs Away

19 King Ahab told Jezebel every thing Elijah had done and how Elijah had killed all the prophets with a sword. ² So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods ·punish me terribly [deal severely with me, and worse; ^Ldo to me, and even more] if by this time tomorrow I don’t ·kill you just as you killed those prophets [^Lmake your life like the life of one of them].”

³ Elijah was afraid and ran for his life, taking his servant with him. When they came to Beersheba in Judah, Elijah left his servant there. ⁴ Then Elijah ·walked [journeyed] for a whole day into the ·desert [wilderness]. He sat down under a ·bush [juniper/broom tree] and asked to die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “·Let me die [^LTake my life]. I am no better than my ·ancestors [fathers; ^Cthat is, he is as good as dead, as they already are].” ⁵ Then he lay down under the tree and slept.

Suddenly an ·angel [messenger] came to him and touched him. “Get up and eat,” the angel said. ⁶ Elijah saw near his head a loaf baked over ·coals [hot stones] and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he ·went back to sleep [^Llay down again].

⁷ The Lord’s ·angel [messenger] came to him a second time. The angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat. If you don’t, the journey will be too ·hard [much] for you.” ⁸ So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount ·Sinai [^LHoreb; Ex. 3:1, 17:6; 19:18], the mountain of God.