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1 Kings 19:8-10
Lexham English Bible
1 Kings 19:8-10
Lexham English Bible
8 So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Elijah Encounters Yahweh at Horeb
9 He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the word of Yahweh came to him and asked him, “Elijah, what are you doing here?”[a] 10 Then he said, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the Israelites[b] have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.
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- 1 Kings 19:9 Literally “What is for you here, Elijah”
- 1 Kings 19:10 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
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