1 Kings 19:1-9 ▼

1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, |May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!|

3 Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

4 while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life: |I've had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors.|

5 He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, |Get up and eat.|

6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

7 The LORD's angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, |Get up and eat, for otherwise you won't be able to make the journey.|

8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

9 He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the LORD spoke to him, |Why are you here, Elijah?|