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Elijah Finds Refuge and Despairs
1 Kings 19:4-8
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But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
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He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”
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He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
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the LORD’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”
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He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
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