Elijah's Journey to Horeb
1 Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
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So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don't make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow!"
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Then Elijah became afraid and immediately ran for his life. When he came to Beer-sheba that belonged to Judah, he left his servant there,
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but he went on a day's journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, "[I have had] enough! Lord, take my life, for I'm no better than my fathers."
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Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. Suddenly, an angel touched him. The angel told him, "Get up and eat."
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Then he looked, and there at his head was a loaf of bread baked over hot stones and a jug of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
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Then the angel of the Lord returned a second time and touched him. He said, "Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you."
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So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
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He entered a cave there and spent the night. Then the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"