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Text -- 1 Kings 19:1-12 (NET)
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Elijah Runs for His Life
19:1 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done , including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword .
19:2 Jezebel 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 !”
19:3 Elijah was afraid , so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah . He left his servant there ,
19:4 while 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 .”
19:5 He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub . All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said , “Get up and eat .”
19:6 He 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 .
19:7 The 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 .”
19:8 So 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 .
19:9 He went into a cave there and spent the night . All of a sudden the Lord spoke to him, “Why are you here , Elijah ?”
19:10 He answered , “I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord , the sovereign God , even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars , and killed your prophets with the sword . I alone am left and now they want to take my life .”
19:11 The Lord said , “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord . Look , the Lord is ready to pass by.” A very powerful wind went before the Lord , digging into the mountain and causing landslides , but the Lord was not in the wind . After the windstorm there was an earthquake , but the Lord was not in the earthquake .
19:12 After the earthquake , there was a fire , but the Lord was not in the fire . After the fire , there was a soft whisper .
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