Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The old commentators generally understood this to mean that Elijah had no other food at all, and compared this long fast with that of Moses and that of our Lord (marginal references). But the words do not exclude the notion of the prophet' s having obtained such nourishment from roots and fruits as the desert offers to a wanderer, though these alone would not have sustained him.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 19:8:
Exodus 24:18
Psalms 68:15
Matthew 4:2
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