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And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also 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 I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."
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And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to 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 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."
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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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And 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 lay down again.
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And 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 thee."
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And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
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And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him, "What doest thou here, Elijah?"