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And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword.
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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."
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And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, "It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!"
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Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."
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Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.
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And the angel of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you."
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So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.
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And there he went into a cave, and spent the night in that place; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"