19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had
killed all the prophets with the sword.
19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the
gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life
of one of them by this time tomorrow."
19:3 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.
19:4 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."
19:5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep.
Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."
19:6 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.
19:7 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."
19:8 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.
19:9 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?"
19:10 He answered, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God
of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down
your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left,
and they are seeking my life, to take it away."
19:11 He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD,
for the LORD is about to pass by." Now there was a great wind, so
strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces
before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind
an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake;
19:12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the
fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.
19:13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and
went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a
voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
19:14 He answered, "I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God
of hosts; for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down
your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left,
and they are seeking my life, to take it away."
