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1 Kings 19:2-4
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1 Kings 19:2-4
English Standard Version
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, (A)“So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.” 3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to (B)Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (C)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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