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 went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

He requested

And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

For to me life is Christ and death is profit.

Better

Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;