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1 Kings 19:2

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Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

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1 Kings 19:2 in other translations

Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.

1 Kings 19:2 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 19:2 in context

  1. 1Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
  2. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”
  3. 3When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
  4. 4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”