1 Kings 19:1-18
New King James Version (NKJV)

Elijah Escapes from Jezebel
19 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah,
saying, “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 a broom tree. And he prayed 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 an angel touched him, and said to him,
“Arise and eat.” 6 Then he
looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So
he ate and drank, and lay down again.7 And the angel of
the Lord came back the second time, and touched him,
and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for
you.” 8 So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the
strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

9 And there he went into a cave, and spent the night
in that place; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, “What are
you doing here, Elijah?”

10 So he said, “I have been very zealous for
the Lord God of hosts; for the children of Israel have
forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone
am left; and they seek to take my life.”
God’s Revelation to Elijah
11 Then
He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the
mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an
earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a
fire, but the Lord wasnot in
the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

13 So it was, when Elijah
heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the
entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you
doing here, Elijah?”

14 And he said, “I have been very zealous for
the Lord God of hosts; because the children of Israel
have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I
alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”

15 Then the Lord said to him: “Go, return on your way to the Wilderness
of Damascus; and when you arrive, anoint Hazaelas king over Syria. 16 Also you shall anoint Jehu the son of
Nimshi as king over Israel. And Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah you
shall anoint as prophet in your place. 17 It
shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and whoever
escapes the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill. 18 Yet I
have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth
that has not kissed him.”