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1 And Ahab told Jezebel all
that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the
sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto
Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not
thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
3 And when he saw that, he arose,
and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah,
and left his servant there.
4 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 away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper
tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and
eat.
6 And he looked, and, behold, there was
a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and
drink, and laid him down again.
7 And the angel of the LORD came again the
second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the
journey is too great for thee.
8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and
went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the
mount of God.
9 And he came thither unto a
cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him,
and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous
for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and
I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon
the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake 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:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but
the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13 And it was so, when Elijah heard
it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in
the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him,
and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14 And he said, I have been very jealous
for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy
covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and
I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
15 And the LORD said unto him, Go, return
on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to
be king over Syria:
16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou
anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of
Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
17 And it shall come to pass, that
him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth
from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
18 Yet I have left me seven
thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every
mouth which hath not kissed him.
19 So he departed thence, and
found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of
oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast
his mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after
Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then
I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to
thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and took
a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of
the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went
after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
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