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1 Kings 19 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Elijah Flees from Jezebel
1 AND Achab told Jezabel all things that Elias had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
2 And Jezabel sent a message to Elias, saying: These things do the gods to me, and these add they, if this hour to morrow I make not thy soul as the soul of one of them.
3 Elias therefore was afraid, and rising he went whither soever his will carried him: and he came into Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,
4 and went forward into the desert, one day's journey. And when he was come, and sat unto a juniper tree, he desired for his soul to die, and said: It sufficeth me Lord, take my soul: for I am not better than my fathers.
5 And he cast himself down, & slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: & behold an Angel of our Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise, and eat.
6 He looked, and behold at his head hearth-baked bread, and a vessel of water: he therefore did eat, & drink, & he slept again.
7 And the Angel of our lord returned the second time, & touched him, & said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.
8 Who when he was risen, did eat & drink, and walked in the strength of that meat forty days, & forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
LORD Speaks to Elijah at Horeb
9 And when he was come thither, he tarried in a cave, and behold the word of our Lord unto him, and he said to him: What doest thou here Elias?
10 But he answered: With zeal have I been zealous for our Lord the God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant: thy altars have they destroyed, and thy Prophets they have slain with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.
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