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And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and of how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
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Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do
to me, and more also, if by tomorrow at this time I have not made thy person as one of them.
3
And when he saw
that, he arose and departed
to save his life and came to Beersheba, which
is in Judah, and left his servant there.
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But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper
tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I
am not better than my fathers.
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And as he lay and slept under a juniper
tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise
and eat.
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Then he looked and behold,
there was a cake baked on the coals and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank and went back to sleep.
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And the angel of the LORD came again the second time and touched him and said, Arise
and eat, for there is a great journey before thee.
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And he arose and ate and drank and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb, the mount of God.
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And there he went into a cave, where he lodged; and the word of the LORD
came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?