1 Kings 19

1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 18:40 · 1Ki 21:5 · 1Ki 21:25

2Then 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!”Cross-references: Ex 10:28 · Ex 15:9 · Ruth 1:17 · 1Ki 2:28 · 1Ki 20:10 · 2Ki 6:31 · +7 more

3When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.Cross-references: Gen 12:12 · Gen 21:31 · Ex 2:15 · 1Sam 27:1 · 1Ki 4:25 · Isa 51:12 · +4 more

4But 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”Cross-references: Gen 21:15 · Num 11:15 · 1Ki 13:14 · 1Ki 19:3 · 2Ki 2:11 · Job 3:20 · +9 more

5He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”Cross-references: Gen 28:11 · Ps 34:7 · Ps 34:10 · Dan 8:19 · Dan 9:21 · Dan 10:9 · +3 more

6He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:6 · 1Ki 17:9 · Ps 37:3 · Isa 33:16 · Matt 4:11 · Matt 6:32 · +3 more

7Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”Cross-references: Deut 33:25 · Ps 103:13

8He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 19:18 · Ex 24:18 · Ex 34:28 · Deut 9:9 · Deut 9:18 · +6 more

9He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”Cross-references: Gen 3:9 · Gen 16:8 · Ex 33:21 · 1Ki 19:13 · Jer 2:18 · Jer 9:2 · +2 more

10He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 34:14 · Num 25:11 · Num 25:13 · 1Ki 18:4 · 1Ki 18:10 · +19 more

11He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.Cross-references: Ex 19:16 · Ex 19:20 · Ex 20:18 · Ex 24:12 · Ex 24:18 · Ex 33:21 · +24 more

12After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.Cross-references: Gen 15:17 · Ex 3:2 · Ex 34:6 · Deut 4:11 · Deut 4:33 · 1Ki 18:38 · +8 more

13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”Cross-references: Gen 16:8 · Ex 3:5 · Ex 33:23 · 1Ki 18:42 · 1Ki 19:9 · Isa 6:2 · +2 more

14He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”Cross-references: Deut 29:25 · Deut 31:20 · 1Ki 19:9 · Ps 78:37 · Isa 1:4 · Isa 62:1 · +5 more

15Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · 2Ki 8:7 · 2Ki 8:28 · 2Ki 9:14 · Isa 45:1 · Jer 1:10 · +3 more

16Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.Cross-references: Judg 7:22 · 1Ki 4:12 · 1Ki 19:19 · 2Ki 2:9 · 2Ki 2:15 · 2Ki 9:1 · +1 more

17He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:23 · 2Ki 8:12 · 2Ki 9:14 · 2Ki 10:32 · 2Ki 13:3 · 2Ki 13:22 · +7 more

18Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Job 31:27 · Ps 2:12 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 49:23 · +4 more

19So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and put his mantle on him.Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Judg 6:11 · 1Sam 28:14 · 1Ki 19:13 · 2Ki 2:8 · 2Ki 2:13 · +4 more

20Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”Cross-references: Matt 4:20 · Matt 4:22 · Matt 8:21 · Matt 9:9 · Matt 19:27 · Luke 9:61 · +1 more

21He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, killed them, and boiled their meat with the oxen’s equipment, and gave to the people; and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.Cross-references: Ex 24:13 · Num 27:18 · 2Sam 24:22 · 1Ki 18:43 · 2Ki 2:3 · 2Ki 3:11 · +4 more