1 Kings 19:8-10

New English Translation

⁸ 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.

⁹ He went into a cave there and spent the night. Suddenly the Lord’s message came to him, “Why are you here, Elijah?” ¹⁰ He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal^[a] to the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,^[b] even though the Israelites have abandoned the covenant they made with you,^[c] torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”^[d]