Elijah Flees from Jezebel

Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying“May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the lives of [those you killed]

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And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came vvv to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die.“I have had enough LORD,” he said.“Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep.

Suddenly an angel touched him and said“Get up and eat.”

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And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

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A second [time] the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying,“Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”

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So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb,[fn] the mountain of God.

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