1 Kings 19:1-13

1Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, “So let the gods do to me and worse if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.”

3Frightened, he got up and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, he left his servant there.

4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”

5Then he lay down and slept under the broom bush. Then behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Get up, and eat.”

6So he looked, and to his surprise, there by his head was a cake baked on the hot stones and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.

7Then the angel of Adonai came again a second time, touched him and said. “Get up and eat, because the journey is too much for you.”

8So he arose and ate and drank, and in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights went to Horeb, the mountain of God.

9When he arrived there at the cave, he spent the night there. Then behold, the word of Adonai came to him, and He said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

10“I have been very zealous for Adonai-Tzva’ot,” he said, “for the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and slain Your prophets with the sword—and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it!”

11Then He said, “Come out and stand on the mount before Adonai.” Behold, Adonai was passing by—a great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and shattering cliffs before Adonai. But Adonai was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but Adonai was not in the earthquake.

12After the earthquake a fire, but Adonai was not in the fire. After the fire there was a soft whisper of a voice.

13As soon as Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then all of a sudden, a voice addressed him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”