Holy Scripture
1 Kings 19:2
A church father on this verse
“"Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, 'So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.' " The insane woman contemplated that after learning from the king what Elijah had done to the prophets of Baal. However, she postponed the revenge…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And Jezebel sent to Elijah, and said, If thou art Elijah and I am Jezebel, God do so to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life by this time tomorrow as the life of one of them.
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In context
1And Ahab told Jezebel his wife all that Elijah had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword.
— 1 Kings 19:2 —
3And Elijah feared, and rose, and departed for his life: and he comes to Beersheba to the land of Judah, and he left his servant there.
4And he himself went a day’s journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.