1. Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, how he had killed all Baal’s prophets with the sword.
2. Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this message: "May the gods do whatever they want to me if by this time tomorrow I haven’t made your life like the life of one of them."
3. Elijah was terrified. He got up and ran for his life. He arrived at Beer-sheba in Judah and left his assistant there.
4. He himself went farther on into the desert a day’s journey. He finally sat down under a solitary broom bush. He longed for his own death: "It’s more than enough, Lord! Take my life because I’m no better than my ancestors."
5. He lay down and slept under the solitary broom bush.Then suddenly a messenger tapped him and said to him, "Get up! Eat something!"
6. Elijah opened his eyes and saw flatbread baked on glowing coals and a jar of water right by his head. He ate and drank, and then went back to sleep.
7. The Lord’s messenger returned a second time and tapped him. "Get up!" the messenger said. "Eat something, because you have a difficult road ahead of you."