Elijah Flees Jezebel (1KI 19:1-8)

[19:1] Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

[19:2] Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

[19:3] Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

[19:4] But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

[19:5] And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

[19:6] And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.

[19:7] And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”

[19:8] And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

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