1 Kings 19:4

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Summary

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.

Sat down

1 Kings 13:14

Genesis 21:15

John 4:6

He requested

Philippians 1:21

Better

Bible References

Sat down

And he gat him up thereon and went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an Oak and said unto him, "Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?" And he said, "Yea."

When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush

and there was Jacob's well. Jesus, then wearied in his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour:

He requested

When he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to Beersheba in Judah, and left his lad there.

Wherefore, if thou deal thus with me; kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my wretchedness."

And as they went walking and talking, behold, there came a chariot of fire and horses of fire and put them asunder. And Elijah went up in the whirlwind to heaven.

"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

Cursed be the day wherein I was born! Unhappy be the day, wherein my mother brought me forth!

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

For Christ is to me life, and death is to me advantage.

Better

Go unto Calneh, and see: and from thence get you to Hamath the great city, and so go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better at ease than these kingdoms, or the border of their land wider than yours?

Art thou better than the great city of Alexandria: that lay in the waters, and had the waters round about it? Which was strongly fenced and walled with the sea?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither reap, nor yet carry into the barns, and yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

What say we then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise. For we have already proved how that both Jews and gentiles are all under sin,