1 Kings 19:1-10

1Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and 12how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “3So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your 4life as the 5life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” 3And he 6was afraid and arose and ran for his 7life and came to 8Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a 9juniper tree; and 10he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my 11life, for I am not better than my fathers.” 5He lay down and slept under a 12juniper tree; and behold, there was 13an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.” 6Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7The angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.” 8So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food 14forty days and forty nights to 15Horeb, the mountain of God.

9Then he came there to a cave and lodged there; and behold, 16the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” 10He said, “17I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, 18torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And 19I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”