Elijah Runs 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 about this time tomorrow.” ³ And he ^[d]was afraid and arose and ^[e]ran for his ^[f]life and came to ^(C)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there. ⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and ^(D)he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take my ^[g]life, for I am not better than my fathers.” ⁵ Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was ^(E)an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.” ⁶ Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. ⁷ And the angel of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.” ⁸ So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food ^(F)forty days and forty nights to ^(G)Horeb, the mountain of God.