1 Kings 19:1-8 - Elijah Flees To Horeb

¹ And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and altogether how he had slain the Prophets with the sword. ² Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, "So do God to me, and so thereto, except I make thy soul like one of theirs by tomorrow this time."

³ When he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to Beersheba in Judah, and left his lad there. ⁴ And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers." ⁵ And as he lay and slept under the Juniper tree, behold, there came an Angel and touched him, and said unto him, "Up and eat." ⁶ And he looked about him: and see, there was a loaf of broiled bread and a cruse of water at his head. And he ate and drank and laid him down again to sleep. ⁷ And the Angel of the LORD came again the second time and touched him, and said, "Up and eat, for thou hast a long Journey to go." ⁸ 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,