Holy Scripture

1 Kings 19:8

A church father on this verse
“"The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him and said, 'Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.' " Elijah was sleeping under a tree. Now an angel came to him and woke him up (sleep was weighing him down because of his fatigue, affliction and discouragement) and provided him with stren…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 19:4

Source: Septuagint

Original

8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb.

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In context

6And Elijah looked, and, behold, at his head there was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and drank, and returned and lay down.

7And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey is far from thee.

— 1 Kings 19:8 —

9And he entered there into a cave, and rested there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

10And Elijah said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thee: they have dug down thine altars, and have slain thy prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.

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