1
Ach'av told Izevel all that Eliyah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2
Then Izevel send a messenger to Eliyah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don't make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
3
When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Be'er-Sheva, which belongs to Yehudah, 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 he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
5
He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
6
He looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drink, and laid him down again.
7
The angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
8
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horev the Mount of God.
9
He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Eliyah?