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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Kings 19 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 1 Kings 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/18.htm" title="1 Kings 18">◄</a> 1 Kings 19 <a href="../1_kings/20.htm" title="1 Kings 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_kings/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Elijah Flees to Horeb</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Elijah was afraid <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Elijah saw">a</a></sup></span> and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, <span class="name">Lord</span>,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.</p><p class="reg">All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>There he went into a cave and spent the night.</p><p class="sectionhead">The <span class="name">Lord</span> Appears to Elijah</p><p class="reg">And the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He replied, “I have been very zealous for the <span class="name">Lord</span> God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, for the <span class="name">Lord</span> is about to pass by.”</p><p class="reg">Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, but the <span class="name">Lord</span> was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the <span class="name">Lord</span> was not in the earthquake. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>After the earthquake came a fire, but the <span class="name">Lord</span> was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave.</p><p class="reg">Then a voice said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He replied, “I have been very zealous for the <span class="name">Lord</span> God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Jehu will put to death any who escape the sword of Hazael, and Elisha will put to death any who escape the sword of Jehu. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Call of Elisha</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.”</p><p class="reg">“Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Elijah saw</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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