1 Kings 19:8
So he arose, and did eat and drink,—and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God—Horeb.
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Exodus 19:18And Mount Sinai, smoked, all over, because Yahweh had come down thereon in fire,—and the smoke thereof went up as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mountain trembled exceedingly.
Exodus 34:28So then he was there, with Yahweh, forty days and forty nights, bread, did he not eat and, water, did he not drink, and he wrote upon the tables, the words of the covenant, the ten words.
Deuteronomy 9:18Then lay I prostrate before Yahweh as at the first, forty days and forty nights, food, did I not eat, and water, did I not drink,—because of all your sin which ye had sinned, in doing the thing that was wicked, in the eyes of Yahweh. to provoke him to anger.
Daniel 1:15and, at the end of ten days, their countenances appeared more comely, and fatter in flesh,—than any of the youths who had been eating the delicacies of the king.
Matthew 4:2and, fasting forty days and forty nights,—afterwards, he hungered.
Luke 4:2forty days,—being tempted by the adversary; and he did eat nothing in those days,—and, when they were concluded, he hungered.
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 →