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Elijah
Flees from Jezebel |
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| 1 Kings 19:1 |
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Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. |
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| 1 Kings 19:2 |
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Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying,
"So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life
of one of them by tomorrow about this time." |
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| 1 Kings 19:3 |
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And he was afraid and arose and ran for his
life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. |
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| 1 Kings 19:4 |
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But he himself went a day's journey into the
wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself
that he might die, and said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am
not better than my fathers." |
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| 1 Kings 19:5 |
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He lay down and slept under a juniper tree;
and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat." |
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| 1 Kings 19:6 |
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Then he looked and behold, there was at his
head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank
and lay down again. |
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| 1 Kings 19:7 |
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The angel of the LORD came again a second time
and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you." |
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| 1 Kings 19:8 |
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So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the
strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God. |
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Elijah
at Horeb |
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| 1 Kings 19:9 |
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Then he came there to a cave and lodged there;
and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said to him, "What are you
doing here, Elijah?" |
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| 1 Kings 19:10 |
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He said, "I have been very zealous for the LORD,
the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down
Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and
they seek my life, to take it away." |
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| 1 Kings 19:11 |
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So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain
before the LORD." And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and strong
wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD;
but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD
was not in the earthquake. |
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| 1 Kings 19:12 |
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After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was
not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing. |
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| 1 Kings 19:13 |
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When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in
his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice
came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" |
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| 1 Kings 19:14 |
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Then he said, "I have been very zealous for
the LORD, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant,
torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am
left; and they seek my life, to take it away." |
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| 1 Kings 19:15 |
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The LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way
to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you have arrived, you shall anoint Hazael
king over Aram; |
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| 1 Kings 19:16 |
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and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint
king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint
as prophet in your place. |
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| 1 Kings 19:17 |
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It shall come about, the one who escapes from
the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the
sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death. |
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| 1 Kings 19:18 |
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Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees
that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him." |
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| 1 Kings 19:19 |
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So he departed from there and found Elisha the
son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and
he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw his mantle on him. |
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| 1 Kings 19:20 |
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He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said,
"Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you." And he said
to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to you?" |
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| 1 Kings 19:21 |
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So he returned from following him, and took
the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the implements
of the oxen, and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and followed
Elijah and ministered to him. |
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