1 Kings 19:1-4 ▼

1 And Ahab declared to Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also all that he had killed—all the prophets—with the sword.

2 And Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “Thus may do the gods, and thus may they add, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life as the life of one of them.”

3 And he feared, and he arose, and ran for his life, and he came to Beersheba, which is unto Judah, and he left his servant there.

4 And he went into the wilderness a journey of a day, and he came and sat down under a certain broom tree, and he prayed for himself that he might die, and he said, “Enough now, YHWH, take my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”