1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. 3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4But 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 Yehovah, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers. 5And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. 6And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. And he ate and drank, and lay down again. 7And the angel of Yehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you. 8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mountain of God. 9And he came there to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Yehovah came to him, and he said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah? 10And he said, I have been very jealous for Yehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 11And he said, Go out, and stand upon the mountain before Yehovah. And, behold, Yehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke the rocks in pieces before Yehovah; but Yehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Yehovah was not in the earthquake: 12and after the earthquake a fire; but Yehovah was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. 13And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice to him, and said, What are you doing here, Elijah? 14And he said, I have been very jealous for Yehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. 15And Yehovah said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria; 16and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place. 17And it shall happen, that whoever escapes from the sword of Hazael Jehu shall kill; and whoever escapes from the sword of Jehu Elisha shall kill. 18Yet I will leave for myself seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him. 19So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle upon him. 20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, please, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you? 21And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and sacrificed them, and boiled their flesh with the equipment of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.