² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and even more, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your ^[a]life like the life of one of them.” ³ And Elijah was afraid and arose and ran for his life, and he came to ^[b]Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there. ⁴ But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”