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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him: "What are you doing here, Elijah?" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14He replied, "I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The LORD said to him, "Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel--all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back," Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?" |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant. |
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