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Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_kings/19.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_kings/19.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />And 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_kings/19.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_kings/19.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_kings/19.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_kings/19.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />So he arose and ate and drank, and he journeyed in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_kings/19.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_kings/19.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_kings/19.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_kings/19.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_kings/19.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_kings/19.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_kings/19.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_kings/19.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />So Elijah sat up and ate and drank. The food and water made him strong enough to walk 40 more days. At last, he reached Mount Sinai, the mountain of God, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_kings/19.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_kings/19.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He got up, ate, and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled for 40 days and nights until he came to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_kings/19.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_kings/19.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />So Elijah got up, ate and drank, and survived on that one meal for 40 days and nights as he set out on his journey to Horeb, God's mountain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_kings/19.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_kings/19.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_kings/19.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />And he got up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_kings/19.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_kings/19.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_kings/19.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and he rises, and eats, and drinks, and goes in the power of that food [for] forty days and forty nights, to the mountain of God—Horeb.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_kings/19.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_kings/19.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_kings/19.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he arose, and ate, and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_kings/19.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_kings/19.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_kings/19.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_kings/19.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb the mount of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/1_kings/19.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he arose, he ate and drank, and walked in the power of this food forty days and forty nights unto the mountain of God at Khurib.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/1_kings/19.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/1_kings/19.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_kings/19-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xx9A0AxPaoQ?start=7560" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_kings/19.htm">Elijah Flees From Jezebel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">7</span>A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.” <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6965.htm" title="6965: way·yā·qām (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To arise, stand up, stand. A primitive root; to rise.">So he got up</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: way·yō·ḵal (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">and ate</a> <a href="/hebrew/8354.htm" title="8354: way·yiš·teh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To drink. A primitive root; to imbibe.">and drank.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3581.htm" title="3581: bə·ḵō·aḥ (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- Or kowach; from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally or figuratively; also a large lizard.">And strengthened</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hî (Art:: Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">by that</a> <a href="/hebrew/396.htm" title="396: hā·’ă·ḵî·lāh (Art:: N-fs) -- An eating, a meal. Feminine from 'akal; something eatable, i.e. Food.">food,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: way·yê·leḵ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">he walked</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: ’ar·bā·‘îm (Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">forty</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">days</a> <a href="/hebrew/705.htm" title="705: wə·’ar·bā·‘îm (Conj-w:: Number-cp) -- Forty. Multiple of arba'; forty.">and forty</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: lay·lāh (N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">nights</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until he reached</a> <a href="/hebrew/2722.htm" title="2722: ḥō·rêḇ (N-proper-fs) -- Waste, a mountain in Sinai. From charab; desolate; Choreb, a name for the Sinaitic mountains.">Horeb,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2022.htm" title="2022: har (N-msc) -- Mountain, hill, hill country. A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills.">the mountain</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">of God.</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a></span><br />So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9</a></span><br />When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a></span><br />After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/4-2.htm">Luke 4:2</a></span><br />where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a></span><br />Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jonah/3-3.htm">Jonah 3:3</a></span><br />This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/1-3.htm">Acts 1:3</a></span><br />After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/9-9.htm">Acts 9:9</a></span><br />For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/17-1.htm">Matthew 17:1-3</a></span><br />After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. / There He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. / Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/9-2.htm">Mark 9:2-4</a></span><br />After six days Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There He was transfigured before them. / His clothes became radiantly white, brighter than any launderer on earth could bleach them. / And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/11-27.htm">Hebrews 11:27</a></span><br />By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/3-1.htm">Exodus 3:1</a></span><br />Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/14-34.htm">Numbers 14:34</a></span><br />In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm">Deuteronomy 8:3</a></span><br />He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-27.htm">2 Corinthians 11:27</a></span><br />in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.</p><p class="hdg">in the strength</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/daniel/1-15.htm">Daniel 1:15</a></b></br> And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_corinthians/12-9.htm">2 Corinthians 12:9</a></b></br> And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.</p><p class="hdg">forty days</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a></b></br> And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a></b></br> And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9,18</a></b></br> When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, <i>even</i> the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: … </p><p class="hdg">Horeb</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/3-1.htm">Exodus 3:1</a></b></br> Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, <i>even</i> to Horeb.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/19-18.htm">Exodus 19:18</a></b></br> And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/malachi/4-4.htm">Malachi 4:4,5</a></b></br> Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, <i>with</i> the statutes and judgments… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_kings/19-6.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-6.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-6.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/1_kings/17-6.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-7.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-6.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-7.htm">Food</a> <a href="/1_kings/15-10.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-9.htm">Horeb</a> <a href="/1_kings/17-16.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/1_kings/17-6.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-20.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-7.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/2_samuel/12-16.htm">Nights</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-46.htm">Power</a> <a href="/2_samuel/22-17.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-3.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-7.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/2_samuel/16-21.htm">Strengthened</a> <a href="/judges/17-8.htm">Traveled</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/19-21.htm">Ate</a> <a href="/1_kings/20-16.htm">Drank</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-17.htm">Drink</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm">Drinketh</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-21.htm">Eat</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-34.htm">Eateth</a> <a href="/1_kings/20-27.htm">Food</a> <a href="/2_kings/2-24.htm">Forty</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/5-10.htm">Horeb</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-8.htm">Meal</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-20.htm">Meat</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-11.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/1_kings/19-11.htm">Mountain</a> <a href="/job/2-13.htm">Nights</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-19.htm">Power</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-32.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-16.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/2_kings/9-24.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-6.htm">Strengthened</a> <a href="/2_kings/5-19.htm">Traveled</a><div class="vheading2">1 Kings 19</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/19-1.htm">Elijah, threatened by Jezebel, flees to Beersheba</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/19-4.htm">In the desert, being weary of his life, he is comforted by an angel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/19-9.htm">At Horeb God appears unto him, sending him to anoint Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha</a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_kings/19-19.htm">Elisha, taking leave of his friends, follows Elijah</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/1_kings/19.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>So he got up</b><br />This phrase indicates Elijah's obedience and readiness to follow God's guidance. The Hebrew root for "got up" is קוּם (qum), which often signifies rising to action or fulfilling a divine command. Elijah's willingness to rise reflects his faith and trust in God's provision, even in his moment of despair.<p><b>and ate and drank</b><br />The act of eating and drinking here is not merely physical sustenance but a divine provision. In the context of Elijah's journey, this meal symbolizes God's care and miraculous provision, reminiscent of the manna provided to the Israelites in the wilderness. It underscores the theme of God as the sustainer of life.<p><b>and strengthened by that food</b><br />The Hebrew word for "strengthened" is חָזַק (chazaq), meaning to be strong or courageous. This strength is not just physical but spiritual, enabling Elijah to undertake a significant journey. It highlights the transformative power of God's provision, equipping Elijah for the task ahead.<p><b>he walked forty days and forty nights</b><br />The number forty in the Bible often signifies a period of testing, trial, or preparation. This echoes the forty years the Israelites spent in the wilderness and Jesus' forty days of fasting. Elijah's journey is a time of spiritual preparation and renewal, emphasizing perseverance and reliance on God.<p><b>until he reached Horeb</b><br />Horeb, also known as Mount Sinai, is a place of divine revelation and covenant. It is where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Elijah's journey to Horeb signifies a return to the foundational place of God's covenant with Israel, seeking renewal and divine encounter.<p><b>the mountain of God</b><br />This phrase underscores Horeb's significance as a sacred place where God reveals Himself. Mountains in biblical literature often symbolize closeness to God and divine encounters. Elijah's destination is not just a physical location but a spiritual journey towards a deeper understanding and communion with God.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_kings/19.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Forty days and forty nights.</span>--Unless this time includes, as has been supposed by some, the whole journey to and from Horeb, and the sojourn there, it is far in excess of what would be recorded for a journey of some two hundred miles. It may, therefore, be thought to imply an interval of retirement for rest and solitary meditation, like the sojourn of Moses in Horeb, and the sojourn of our Lord in the wilderness (<a href="/exodus/24-18.htm" title="And Moses went into the middle of the cloud, and got him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.">Exodus 24:18</a>; <a href="/matthew/4-2.htm" title="And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.">Matthew 4:2</a>) during which the spirit of the prophet might be calmed from the alternations of triumph and despondency, to receive the spiritual lesson which awaited him. During all that time he went "in the strength" of the Divine food, that he might know that "man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (<a href="/deuteronomy/8-3.htm" title="And he humbled you, and suffered you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.">Deuteronomy 8:3</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_kings/19.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights</span> [Cf. <a href="/exodus/24-18.htm">Exodus 24:18</a>; <a href="/exodus/34-28.htm">Exodus 34:28</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9, 25</a>; <a href="/jonah/3-4.htm">Jonah 3:4</a>; <a href="/matthew/4-2.htm">Matthew 4:2</a>; <a href="/acts/1-3.htm">Acts 1:3</a>. But the primary reference is perhaps to the "forty days and forty nights" which Moses spent in Horeb, during which he "neither did eat bread nor drink water" (<a href="/deuteronomy/9-9.htm">Deuteronomy 9:9</a>), or to the forty years during which Israel was sustained in this same desert with "angels' food" (<a href="/psalms/78-25.htm">Psalm 78:25</a>). It is noteworthy how both Moses and Elias were precursors of our Lord in a forty days' fast. "The three great fasters met gloriously on Tabor" (Hall). It is not implied that it took the prophet the whole of this time to reach Horeb, which is only distant from Beer-sheba some 130 miles. "There are eleven days' journey <span class="accented">from</span> Horeb, by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnes" (<a href="/deuteronomy/1-2.htm">Deuteronomy 1:2</a>). It is of course possible that he wandered aimlessly hither and thither during this period, but it seems better to understand the words of the whole of his desert sojourn] <span class="cmt_word">unto Horeb the mount of God.</span> [See note on 1 Kings 8:9. It is just possible that Horeb was already known as "the mount of God" at the time God appeared to Moses there - the whole of the Sinaitic peninsula was sacred in the eyes of the Egyptians; but it is more probable that this designation is used in <a href="/exodus/3-1.htm">Exodus 3:1</a> prophetically, and that it was Bestowed on the Mount of the Law because of the special revelation of the Godhead there (<a href="/exodus/3-6.htm">Exodus 3:6</a>; <a href="/exodus/19-3.htm">Exodus 19:3, 11, 18</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/1-6.htm">Deuteronomy 1:6</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/4-10.htm">Deuteronomy 4:10</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/5-2.htm">Deuteronomy 5:2</a>, etc.)] <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_kings/19-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">So he got up</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיָּ֖קָם</span> <span class="translit">(way·yā·qām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6965.htm">Strong's 6965: </a> </span><span class="str2">To arise, stand up, stand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and ate</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֹּ֣אכַל</span> <span class="translit">(way·yō·ḵal)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and drank.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiš·teh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8354.htm">Strong's 8354: </a> </span><span class="str2">To imbibe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">And strengthened</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּכֹ֣חַ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḵō·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3581.htm">Strong's 3581: </a> </span><span class="str2">A small reptile (of unknown species)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by that</span><br /><span class="heb">הַהִ֗יא</span> <span class="translit">(ha·hî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">food,</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֲכִילָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ă·ḵî·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_396.htm">Strong's 396: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something eatable, food</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he walked</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֵּ֜לֶךְ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yê·leḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, come, walk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">forty</span><br /><span class="heb">אַרְבָּעִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ar·bā·‘îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> </span><span class="str2">Forty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">days</span><br /><span class="heb">יוֹם֙</span> <span class="translit">(yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and forty</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאַרְבָּעִ֣ים</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’ar·bā·‘îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_705.htm">Strong's 705: </a> </span><span class="str2">Forty</span><br /><br /><span class="word">nights</span><br /><span class="heb">לַ֔יְלָה</span> <span class="translit">(lay·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> </span><span class="str2">A twist, night, adversity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">until he reached</span><br /><span class="heb">עַ֛ד</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Horeb,</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹרֵֽב׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·rêḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2722.htm">Strong's 2722: </a> </span><span class="str2">Horeb -- 'waste', a mountain in Sinai</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the mountain</span><br /><span class="heb">הַ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(har)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2022.htm">Strong's 2022: </a> </span><span class="str2">Mountain, hill, hill country</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of God.</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_kings/19-8.htm">1 Kings 19:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_kings/19-8.htm">OT History: 1 Kings 19:8 He arose and ate and drink (1Ki iKi i Ki 1 Kg 1kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_kings/19-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 19:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 19:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_kings/19-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 19:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 19:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>