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Elijah Finds Refuge and Despairs
1 Kings 19:4-8
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but he himself went a day farther into the desert, until he came to a broom tree. He sat down under it and prayed for his own death. "Enough!" he said. "Now, ADONAI, take my life. I'm no better than my ancestors."
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Then he lay down under the broom tree and went to sleep. Suddenly, an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat!"
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He looked, and there by his head was a cake baked on the hot stones and a jug of water. He ate and drank, then lay down again.
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The angel came again, a second time, touched him and said, "Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you."
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He got up, ate and drank, and, on the strength of that meal, traveled forty days and nights until he reached Horev the mountain of God.
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