3
Then he was afraid; he got up and fled for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.
4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."
5
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."
6
He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
7
The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you."
8
He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
9
At that place he came to a cave, and spent the night there. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
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