1 Kings 19:8-10

8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
There he went into a cave and spent the night.

The LORD Appears to Elijah

9 And the word of the LORD came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”

1 Kings 19:8-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 19

This chapter gives us a further account of Elijah, of his being obliged to flee for his life through the threats of Jezebel, 1Ki 19:1-4, of the care the Lord took of him, providing food for him, in the strength of which he went to Horeb, 1Ki 19:5-8, of the Lord's appearance to him there, and conversation with him, 1Ki 19:9-14, of some instructions he gave him to anoint a king over Syria, another over Israel, and a prophet in his room, 1Ki 19:15-18, and of his finding Elisha, and throwing his mantle over him, who left his secular employment, and followed him, and became his servant, 1Ki 19:19-21.

Cross References 8

  • 1. Exodus 24:18; Exodus 34:28; Dt 9:9-11,18; Matthew 4:2
  • 2. S Exodus 3:1
  • 3. S Exodus 33:22
  • 4. S Genesis 3:9
  • 5. S Numbers 25:13; Acts 22:3; Galatians 4:18
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 31:16
  • 7. 1 Kings 18:30
  • 8. 1 Kings 18:4,22; Jeremiah 5:11; Jeremiah 9:2; Romans 11:3*
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