1 Kings19
1/And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2/ Then Jezbel sent a messwnger unto Elijah, saying ,So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.
3/And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth tto Judah, and lefr his servant there.
4/But himselt went a day`s Journey into came wilderness, and came and sat down under a Juniper tree: and he requesred for himself theat he might die; and said, lt is enough: now O LORD, take away my now, O LORD, take away my life; for fathers.
5/And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and est.
6/ And he looked , and behold, there was a cake baken on coals , and a cruse of water at his head, And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
7/And the ahgel of the 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 did est and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto horeb the mount of god.
9/and he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and ,behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him what doest thou here Eljah?
10/And he said ,I have been very jealous for the LORD god of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenbant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I oniy, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
11/And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. and ,behold, the LORD passed by , and a gteat and strong wind a great and strong wind trnt the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the LoRD was not in the
12/And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and sfter the fire a still small the fire a still small voice.
13/And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. and, behold, there came a volce unto him, and said, what doest thou here. Elijah?
14/and he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine sltars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and l, even I only, am lefr; and they seek my life , to take it away.
15/And the LORD said unto him, go return on thy way ,Go return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comesr, anoint Hazael to hing over Syria:
16/And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy toom.
17/And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the swotd of Hazael shall Jahu slay: and him that escapeth drom the sword of slay.
18/Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed un to Baal, and every mouth which hath not kisses him.
19/So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of shaphat , who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elikah passed by him , and cast his mantle upon him.
20/And he laft the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let , I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, go back again: for what have I done to thee?
21/And he retuned vback from him , and took a yoke of oxen. and slew them, and boiled their fiesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the peoiplem, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.