1 Kings 19:8
And he when he had risen up, he ate and drank. And he walked by the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God, Horeb.
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Exodus 19:18Then all of Mount Sinai was smoking. For the Lord had descended over it with fire, and smoke ascended from it, as from a furnace. And the entire mountain was terrible.
Exodus 34:28Therefore, he was in that place with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread and he did not drink water, and he wrote on the tablets the ten words of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:18And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.
Daniel 1:15But, after ten days, their faces appeared better and fatter than all the children who had eaten from the king’s food.
Matthew 4:2And when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.
Luke 4:2for forty days, and he was tested by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days. And when they were completed, he was hungry.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 19:2-9
Elijah's Flight from Jezebel. ( b. c. 906.) 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the… Read the whole commentary →