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Chapter 19
- 19:1
- And Ahab told Jezebel all that
Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the
sword.
- 19:2
- Then Jezebel sent a messenger 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.
- 19:3
- And when he saw that, he arose,
and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to
Judah, and left his servant there.
- 19:4
- But he himself went a day's
journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper
tree: and 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.
- 19:5
- And as he lay and slept under a
juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him,
Arise and eat.
- 19:6
- And he looked, and, behold, there
was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And
he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
- 19:7
- And the angel of the LORD came
again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat;
because the journey is too great for thee.
- 19:8
- And he arose, and did eat and
drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty
nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
- 19:9
- 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, Elijah?
- 19:10
- And he said, I have been very
jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have
forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy
prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my
life, to take it away.
- 19:11
- And he said, Go forth, and stand
upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a
great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the
rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the
wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
- 19:12
- And after the earthquake a fire;
but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small
voice.
- 19:13
- 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 voice unto him,
and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
- 19:14
- 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 altars, and slain thy
prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my
life, to take it away.
- 19:15
- And the LORD said unto him, Go,
return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest,
anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
- 19:16
- 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 room.
- 19:17
- And it shall come to pass, that
him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that
escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
- 19:18
- Yet I have left me seven thousand
in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every
mouth which hath not kissed him.
- 19:19
- 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 Elijah passed by him, and
cast his mantle upon him.
- 19:20
- And he left the oxen, and ran
after Elijah, and said, Let me, 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?
- 19:21
- And he returned back from him, and
took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the
instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat.
Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
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