1 Kings 19 (New American Standard)

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Elijah Flees from Jezebel

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and ^a¹how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "²So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your ^blife as the ^clife of one of them by tomorrow about this time." 3 And he ^dwas afraid and arose and ran for his ^elife and came to ³Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a ^fjuniper tree ; and ⁴he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough ; now, O LORD, take my ^glife, for I am not better than my fathers." 5 He lay down and slept under a ^hjuniper tree ; and behold, there was ⁵an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat." 6 Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 The angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you." 8 So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food ⁶forty days and forty nights to ⁷Horeb, the mountain of God.

Elijah at Horeb

9 Then he came there to a cave and lodged there ; and behold, ⁸the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah ?" 10 He said, "⁹I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts ; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, ¹⁰torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And ¹¹I alone am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away." 11 So He said, "¹²Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD was passing by! And ¹³a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12 After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire ; and after the fire ¹⁴a sound of a gentle blowing. 13 When Elijah heard it, ¹⁵he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, ¹⁶a voice came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah ?" 14 Then he said, "¹⁷I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of hosts ; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away." 15 The LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, ¹⁸you shall anoint Hazael king over Aram ; 16 and ¹⁹Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel ; and ²⁰Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17 "It shall come about, the ²¹one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu ²²shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. 18 "²³Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not ²⁴kissed him." 19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth . And Elijah passed over to him and threw ²⁵his mantle on him. 20 He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please ²⁶let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" 21 So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and ²⁷boiled their flesh with the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah and ministered to him.

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