I Kings 19

Elijah Escapes from Jezebel

1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had *1 Kin. 18:40executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, *Ruth 1:17; 1 Kin. 20:10; 2 Kin. 6:31"So let the gods do tome, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." 3 And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he *Num. 11:15; Jer. 20:14–18; Jon. 4:3, 8prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!"

5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat." 6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you." 8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and *Ex. 24:18; 34:28; Deut. 9:9–11, 18; Matt. 4:2forty nights as far as *Ex. 3:1; 4:27Horeb, the mountain of God.