1. And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had executed all the prophets with the sword.
2. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”
3. When he saw that she was serious, he arose and ran for his life to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4. But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”
5. As he lay and slept under the juniper tree, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”
6. He looked, and there was a cake baked on coals and a jar of water at his head. And he ate and drank and then lay down again.
7. The angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
8. 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.