1KI-19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and
withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
1KI-19:2 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 to morrow about this time.
1KI-19:3 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.
1KI-19:4 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.
1KI-19:5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold,
then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.
1KI-19:6 And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baken on
the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and
drink, and laid him down again.
1KI-19:7 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.
1KI-19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the
mount of God. 1KI-19:9 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?
1KI-19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God
of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
away.
1KI-19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before
the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks
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:
1KI-19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; [but] the LORD [was]
not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
1KI-19:13 And it was [so], when Elijah heard [it] that he
wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the
entering in of the cave. And, behold, [there came] a voice unto
him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
1KI-19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God
of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with
the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they seek my life,
to take it away.
1KI-19:15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to
the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael
[to be] king over Syria:
1KI-19:16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint [to be]
king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah
shalt thou anoint [to be] prophet in thy room.
1KI-19:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth
the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from
the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
1KI-19:18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the
knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath
not kissed him.
1KI-19:19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
Shaphat, who [was] plowing [with] twelve yoke [of oxen] before
him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast
his mantle upon him.
1KI-19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said,
Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and [then] I
will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what
have I done to thee?
1KI-19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen,
and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of
the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he
arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
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