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
journeyis 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.”