1 Kings 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 

Ge 21:15,16; Nu 11:15; 1Ki 13:14; 1Ki 19:3; 2Ki 2:11; Job 3:20-22; Jer 20:14-18; Am 6:2; Jon 4:3,8; Na 3:8; Mt 6:26; Joh 4:6; Ro 3:9; Php 1:21-24

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.”