1 Kings 19:7

The LORD’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

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In The King James Version

And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

In Context

6He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

8He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

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Cross References

Psalms 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

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 →

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