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Elijah Flees to the Wilderness

19 Then Ahab told Jezebel everything that Elijah had done, including the fact that he had killed all their prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to say to Elijah, “May the gods punish me severely and even double it, if by this time tomorrow I have not made your life like one of theirs.”

Elijah was afraid,[a] and he ran for his life. He went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 19:3 The translation follows the ancient versions and a minority of Hebrew manuscripts. The main Hebrew text reads Elijah saw.