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 goeth after the man of God, and findeth him sitting under the oak, and saith unto him, 'Art thou the man of God who hast come from Judah?' and he saith, 'I am.'

and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she placeth the lad under one of the shrubs.

and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

He requested

And he feareth, and riseth, and goeth for his life, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, that is Judah's, and leaveth his young man there,

and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

And it cometh to pass, they are going, going on and speaking, and lo, a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and they separate between them both, and Elijah goeth up in a whirlwind, to the heavens.

Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

Better

Pass ye over to Calneh and see, And go thence to Hamath the great, And go down to Gath of the Philistines, Are they better than these kingdoms? Greater is their border than your border?

Art thou better than No-Ammon, That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she hath round about her, Whose bulwark is the sea, waters her wall.

look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?

What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,