World English Bible
1 Kings 19:8
“He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.”
1 Kings 19:8 in the King James Version
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.Read 1 Kings 19:8 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 19
He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and laid down again.
The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
He came there to a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?
He said, "I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Cross references for 1 Kings 19:8
- Deuteronomy 9:18
I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
- Exodus 34:28
He was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread, nor drank water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
- Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God's mountain, to Horeb.
- Exodus 24:18
Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up on the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
- Matthew 4:2
When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.
- Malachi 4:4-5
Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
- Mark 1:13
He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
- Luke 4:2
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
- Daniel 1:15
At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
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