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Elijah Finds Refuge and Despairs
1 Kings 19:4-8
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while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
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And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.
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A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
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So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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