1 En Agab het aan Is,bel meegedeel alles wat El¡a gedoen het, ja, alles -- hoe hy al die profete met die swaard gedood het.
2 Daarop stuur Is,bel 'n boodskapper na El¡a om te sê: Mag die gode so doen en so daaraan toedoen -- sekerlik sal ek môre sulke tyd jou siel maak soos die siel van een van hulle.
3 Toe hy dit sien, het hy hom klaargemaak en ter wille van sy lewe weggegaan. En toe hy in Bers,ba in Juda aangekom het, het hy sy dienaar daar laat agterbly;
4 maar self het hy 'n dagreis ver die woestyn ingegaan en daar onder 'n besembos gaan sit en gewens dat hy mag sterwe. En hy sê: Dit is genoeg, neem nou my siel weg, HERE, want ek is nie beter as my vaders nie.
5 Daarop gaan hy lê en raak onder 'n besembos aan die slaap; en kyk, daar raak 'n engel hom aan en sê vir hom: Staan op, eet!
6 Toe hy opkyk, was daar aan sy koppenent 'n broodkoek, op warm klippe gebak, en 'n kruik water. En hy het geëet en gedrink en weer gaan lê.
7 En die engel van die HERE het weer vir die tweede maal gekom en hom aangeraak en gesê: Staan op, eet; anders is die pad vir jou te veel.
8 Hy het toe opgestaan en geëet en gedrink en deur die krag van die voedsel veertig dae en veertig nagte lank geloop tot by die berg van God, Horeb.
9 En hy het daar in 'n spelonk gegaan en die nag daar oorgebly. En kyk, die woord van die HERE het tot hom gekom en vir hom gesê: Wat maak jy hier, El¡a?
10 En hy antwoord: Ek het baie geywer vir die HERE, die God van die leërskare; want die kinders van Israel het u verbond verlaat, u altare afgebreek en u profete met die swaard gedood, sodat ek alleen oorgebly het, en hulle soek my lewe om dit weg te neem.
11 En Hy sê: Gaan uit en staan op die berg voor die aangesig van die HERE. En kyk, die HERE het verbygegaan, terwyl 'n groot en sterk wind die berge skeur en die rotse verbreek voor die HERE uit; in die wind was die HERE nie. En n die wind 'n aardbewing; in die aardbewing was die HERE nie.
12 En n die aardbewing 'n vuur; in die vuur was die HERE nie. En n die vuur die gesuis van 'n sagte koelte.
13 En toe El¡a dit hoor, het hy sy gelaat met sy mantel toegedraai en uitgegaan en by die ingang van die spelonk gaan staan. En daar kom 'n stem na hom wat sê: Wat maak jy hier, El¡a?
14 En hy antwoord: Ek het baie geywer vir die HERE, die God van die leërskare; want die kinders van Israel het u verbond verlaat, u altare afgebreek en u profete met die swaard gedood, sodat ek alleen oorgebly het; en hulle soek my lewe om dit weg te neem.
15 Maar die HERE sê vir hom: Gaan terug op jou pad na die woestyn van Damaskus, en gaan heen en salf H sael as koning oor Aram.
16 En Jehu, die seun van Nimsi, moet jy salf as koning oor Israel; en El¡sa, die seun van Safat, uit Abel-Mehola, moet jy salf as profeet in jou plek.
17 En die een wat van die swaard van H sael vryraak, hom sal Jehu doodmaak; en wat van die swaard van Jehu vryraak, hom sal El¡sa doodmaak.
18 Maar Ek sal sewe duisend in Israel laat oorbly, al die knieë wat nie voor Baäl gekniel en elke mond wat hom nie gesoen het nie.
19 Hy het toe daarvandaan weggegaan en El¡sa, die seun van Safat, aangetref terwyl hy aan ploeë was met twaalf paar osse voor hom en hy self by die twaalfde paar was; en El¡a het by hom verbygegaan en sy mantel op hom gewerp.
20 Daarop het hy die osse verlaat en agter El¡a aan geloop en gesê: Laat ek tog my vader en my moeder soen; daarna sal ek u volg. En hy antwoord hom: Gaan terug, want wat het ek aan jou gedoen?
21 Hy draai toe agter hom om en neem die paar osse en slag dit; en met die osse se trekgoed het hy hulle vleis gekook en aan die mense gegee, en hulle het geëet; daarna het hy hom klaargemaak en El¡a gevolg en hom gedien.
1 Ahab gave Jezebel news of all Elijah had done, and how he had put all the prophets to death with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;
4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
5 And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.
6 And looking up, he saw by his head a cake cooked on the stones and a bottle of water. So he took food and drink and went to sleep again.
7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.
8 So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.
9 And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
11 Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.
12 And after the earth-shock a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, the sound of a soft breath.
13 And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.
15 And the Lord said to him, Go back on your way through the waste land to Damascus; and when you come there, put the holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram;
16 And on Jehu, son of Nimshi, making him king over Israel; and on Elisha, the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah, to be prophet in your place.
17 And it will come about that the man who gets away safe from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will put to death; and whoever gets away safe from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will put to death.
18 But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.
19 So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.
20 And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?
21 And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.