1. Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed 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 don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
3. When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
5. He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”