The Angel Appears to Elijah by Ferdinand Bol

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1 Kings 19:1-9

1 Kings 19 1

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 19 2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

1 Kings 19 3

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 19 4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19 5

He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

1 Kings 19 6

He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

1 Kings 19 7

Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

1 Kings 19 8

He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

1 Kings 19 9

He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”