Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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.

New American Standard Bible

So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

International Standard Version

So Elijah got up, ate and drank, and survived on that one meal for 40 days and nights as he set out on his journey to Horeb, God's mountain.

American Standard Version

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Amplified

So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.

Bible in Basic English

So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Darby Translation

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.

Julia Smith Translation

And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.

King James 2000

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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,

NET Bible

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

New Heart English Bible

And he got up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

The Emphasized Bible

So he arose, and did eat and drink, - and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God - Horeb.

Webster

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.

World English Bible

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And he arose
קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

and did eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

and drink
שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

and went
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

in the strength
כּוח כּח 
Koach 
Usage: 126

of that meat
אכילה 
'akiylah 
Usage: 1

ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and forty
ארבּעים 
'arba`iym 
Usage: 136

לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

חרב 
Choreb 
Usage: 17

the mount
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

References

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Context Readings

Elijah Flees To Horeb

7 And the agent of 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 ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God. 9 And he came to a cave there, and lodged there. And, behold, the word of LORD came to him, and he said to him, What are thou doing here, Elijah?


Cross References

Exodus 34:28

And he was there with LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread, nor drank water, and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

Exodus 24:18

And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up onto the mount. And Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:18

And I fell down before LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Matthew 4:2

And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

Mark 1:13

And he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild beasts. And the heavenly agents served him.

Luke 4:2

being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days, and when they were ended, afterward he was hungry.

Exodus 19:18

And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because LORD descended upon it in fire, and the smoke of it ascended as the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mount quaked greatly.

Deuteronomy 9:9-11

When I was gone up onto the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which LORD made with you, then I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Daniel 1:15

And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared finer, and they were fuller in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.

Malachi 4:4-5

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

2 Corinthians 12:9

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

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