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    1 Kings 19

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    Rock-shattering wind, earthquake, and fire pass before Elijah, and the LORD is in none of them; then comes a still, small voice.

    The journey to Horebvv. 1–10

    Ahab tells Jezebel what Elijah has done, and Jezebel answers with a death threat dressed as an oath. Elijah runs all the way to Beersheba, leaves his servant there, and goes on alone into the wilderness, where he asks to die beneath a broom tree. An angel twice supplies bread and water; strengthened by the second meal, Elijah walks forty days and forty nights to Horeb, enters a cave, and is asked what he is doing there. His answer is the same charge each time: Israel has broken faith, destroyed altars, killed prophets, and left him alone.

    The quiet voice and the oxenvv. 11–21

    At the mouth of the cave, the mountain performs a grand procession: wind tears at it and shatters rocks, then earthquake, then fire. The text places the LORD beside these spectacles while carefully refusing to place him in them; after the fire comes a still, small voice. Elijah covers his face, hears the question again, and receives a new route and three commissions: Hazael over Aram, Jehu over Israel, and Elisha as his successor. There are also seven thousand left in Israel who have not bowed to Baal. Elijah finds Elisha plowing with twelve teams of oxen, throws his cloak around him, and receives an admirably practical farewell: Elisha burns the equipment, cooks the oxen, feeds the people, and follows.

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    1. 1 Kgs 19:1Now Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

    2. 1 Kgs 19:2So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like the lives of those you killed!”

    3. 1 Kgs 19:3And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

    4. 1 Kgs 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

    5. 1 Kgs 19:5Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

    6. 1 Kgs 19:6And he looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

    7. 1 Kgs 19:7A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”

    8. 1 Kgs 19:8So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

    9. 1 Kgs 19:9There Elijah entered a cave and spent the night. And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

    10. 1 Kgs 19:10“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

    11. 1 Kgs 19:11Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

    12. 1 Kgs 19:12After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice.

    13. 1 Kgs 19:13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

    14. 1 Kgs 19:14“I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.”

    15. 1 Kgs 19:15Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

    16. 1 Kgs 19:16You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.

    17. 1 Kgs 19:17Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Jehu.

    18. 1 Kgs 19:18Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”

    19. 1 Kgs 19:19So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.

    20. 1 Kgs 19:20So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”

    21. 1 Kgs 19:21So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

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    • 12Job 4:16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
    • 18Romans 11:4–5And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
    • 12Zechariah 4:6So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
    • 12Deuteronomy 4:33Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
    • 4Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
    • 11Ezekiel 1:4I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber,
    • 4Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
    • 11Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
    • 12Job 33:7Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
    • 12Deuteronomy 4:11–12You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
    • 12Exodus 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
    • 18Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
    • 101 Kings 18:4for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
    • 11Job 38:1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
    • 11Isaiah 30:30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
    • 18Isaiah 10:20–22On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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