| 1 | Ahab told Jez'ebel all that Eli'jah had done, and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. |
| 2 | Then Jez'ebel sent a messenger to Eli'jah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." |
| 3 | Then he was afraid, and he arose and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs 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 broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers." |
| 5 | And he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat." |
| 6 | And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again. |
| 7 | And the angel of the LORD came again a second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you." |
| 8 | And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. |
| 9 | And there he came 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, Eli'jah?" |
| 10 | He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the people of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thy altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." |