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.
9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the Lordcame to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"