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Text -- 1 Kings 19:1-6 (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 .
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NET Notes: 1Ki 19:3 The MT has “and he saw,” but some medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions support the reading “he was afraid.”...
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