while he himself traveled on a day's journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." Cross References Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now--if I have found favor in Your eyes--and let me not see my own wretchedness." 1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." Job 6:9 that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off! Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name," His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail. Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, "It is better for me to die than to live." Chapter Outline 1. Elijah, threatened by Jezebel, flees to Beersheba4. In the desert, being weary of his life, he is comforted by an angel 9. At Horeb God appears unto him, sending him to anoint Hazael, Jehu, and Elisha 19. Elisha, taking leave of his friends, follows Elijah Jump to Previous Better Broom-Tree Day's Die Enough Fathers Journey Juniper Juniper-Tree Life Requested Sat Tree WildernessJump to Next Better Broom-Tree Day's Die Enough Fathers Journey Juniper Juniper-Tree Life Requested Sat Tree Wilderness |
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