1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had ^aexecuted all the prophets with the sword.  ‡

2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, ^a“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.”  ‡

4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a¹ broom tree. And he ^aprayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”  ‡

5 Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an¹ angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.”  ‡