1 Kings 19:4-8
19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub 1 and asked the Lord to take his life: 2 “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” 3
19:5 He stretched out 4 and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger 5 touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
19:6 He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more. 6
19:7 The Lord’s angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, “Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.” 7
19:8 So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
1 tn Or “broom tree” (also in v. 5).
2 tn Heb “and asked with respect to his life to die.”
3 tn Heb “fathers.”
4 tn Or “lay down.”
5 tn Heb “Look, a messenger.”
6 tn Heb “and again lay down”
7 tn Heb “for the journey is too great for you.”