1. Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, “So let the gods do to me and worse if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.”
3. Frightened, he got up and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, he left his servant there.
4. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”
5. Then he lay down and slept under the broom bush. Then behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Get up, and eat.”