Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “(A)So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your [a]life as the [b]life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” And he [c]was afraid and arose and ran for his [d]life and came to (B)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a [e]juniper tree; and (C)he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my [f]life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

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  1. 1 Kings 19:2 Lit soul
  2. 1 Kings 19:2 Lit soul
  3. 1 Kings 19:3 Reading of many mss; Heb text may read saw
  4. 1 Kings 19:3 Lit soul
  5. 1 Kings 19:4 Or broom-tree
  6. 1 Kings 19:4 Lit soul

So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely,(A) if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”(B)

Elijah was afraid[a] and ran(C) for his life.(D) When he came to Beersheba(E) in Judah, he left his servant there, while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush,(F) sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life;(G) I am no better than my ancestors.”

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  1. 1 Kings 19:3 Or Elijah saw