4 and traveled another day’s journey into the desert. He sat down under a broom tree and asked to die. "I’ve had enough now, Lord," he said. "Take my life! I’m no better than my forefathers."
5 He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree. All of a sudden an angel touched him and said, "Get up, and eat." 6 He looked around, and there beside his head was some bread baking over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and lay down again.
7 The angel of the Lord returned a second time and touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you."
8 So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength the food gave him he was able to walk forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb,19:8. Another name for Mount Sinai. the mountain of God.
12 After the earthquake there came a fire, but the Lord wasn’t in the fire. And after the fire came a voice speaking in a gentle whisper.
15 The Lord told him, "Go back the way you came to the desert of Damascus. When you get there, go and anoint Hazael king of Aram. 16 Also anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, king of Israel and Elisha, son of Shaphat, from Abel-meholah, to take over from you as prophet.
18 I still have seven thousand left in Israel, all those who have not bowed their knees to worship Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him."