1 Kings 19:2

1 Kings 19:2

Elijah Escapes from Jezebel

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.”

3 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.

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.”

6 Then he looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on¹ coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and lay down again.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Jezebel sent - She gives him notice of it before hand: partly, out of the height of her spirit, as scorning to kill him secretly: partly, out of her impatience, till she had breathed out her rage: and principally, from God's all - disposing providence, that so he might have an opportunity of escaping. Do to me, etc. - So far was she from being changed by that evident miracle, that she persists in her former idolatry, and adds to it a monstrous confidence, that in spight of God she would destroy his prophet.

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