1 Kings 19:2

19:2 Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, ¹  “May the gods judge me severely ²  if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!” ³ 

1 Kings 19:4

19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ⁴  and asked the Lord to take his life: ⁵  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ⁶ 

[19:2]  ¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[19:2]  ² tn Heb “So may the gods do to me, and so may they add.”

[19:2]  ³ tn Heb “I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”

[19:4]  ⁴ tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).

[19:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”

[19:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “fathers.”