Elijah flees to Horeb

19 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, ‘May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.’

Elijah was afraid[a] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 19:3 Or Elijah saw