1 Kings 19:1-4

Elijah Flees from Jezebel

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and 1how 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 life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."
3 And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life 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 juniper tree; and 4he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers."

1 Kings 19:1-4 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 19

This chapter gives us a further account of Elijah, of his being obliged to flee for his life through the threats of Jezebel, 1Ki 19:1-4, of the care the Lord took of him, providing food for him, in the strength of which he went to Horeb, 1Ki 19:5-8, of the Lord's appearance to him there, and conversation with him, 1Ki 19:9-14, of some instructions he gave him to anoint a king over Syria, another over Israel, and a prophet in his room, 1Ki 19:15-18, and of his finding Elisha, and throwing his mantle over him, who left his secular employment, and followed him, and became his servant, 1Ki 19:19-21.

Cross References 4

  • 1. 1 Kings 18:40
  • 2. Ruth 1:17; 1 Kings 20:10; 2 Kings 6:31
  • 3. Genesis 21:31
  • 4. Numbers 11:15; Jeremiah 20:14-18; Jonah 4:3, 8

Footnotes 7

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