1 Kings 19:1-8

1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.

2Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, “May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!”

3Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

4while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

5He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

6He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

7The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.”

8So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.