1Ahab hit up Jezebel and spilled the tea about all the stuff Elijah did, including taking out all the prophets with a sword.

2Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "If the gods don't do worse to me, I’m gonna make your life as lit as one of those prophets by tomorrow."

3When he peeped that, he bounced for his life and made it to Beer-sheba, which is in Judah, and left his homie there.

4But he dipped deeper into the wilderness, found a juniper tree, and just flopped down under it, saying, "I’m done, Lord; take my life. I ain’t better than my fam."

5While he was chilling and napping under the tree, an angel popped up, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat."

6He looked around and saw a cake on some coals and a jug of water next to him. He ate, drank, and crashed again.

7The angel of the Lord came back a second time, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat; you got a big journey ahead."

8He got up, ate, drank, and rolled in the strength of that meal for forty days and nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

9He showed up at a cave and crashed there; then the word of the Lord came to him, asking, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

10He said, "I’m super jealous for the Lord of hosts, 'cause the Israelites ditched your covenant, wrecked your altars, and took out your prophets; I’m the only one left, and they wanna take me out."

11God said, "Step out and stand on the mountain." Then the Lord passed by, and a wild wind smashed the mountains and broke rocks, but the Lord wasn’t in the wind; after that, there was an earthquake, but the Lord wasn’t in that either.

12After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord wasn’t in the fire; then came a chill, quiet voice.

13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and stepped out to the cave entrance. Then a voice asked him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

14He replied, "I’m super jealous for the Lord of hosts, 'cause the Israelites ditched your covenant, wrecked your altars, and took out your prophets; I’m the only one left, and they wanna take me out."

15The Lord said, "Bounce back to the wilderness of Damascus, and when you get there, anoint Hazael as king over Syria."

16Anoint Jehu, son of Nimshi, as king over Israel, and Elisha, son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah, as the prophet in your place.

17Anyone who escapes Hazael’s sword, Jehu will take out; and whoever escapes Jehu’s sword, Elisha will slay.

18But I’ve got seven thousand left in Israel who haven’t bowed to Baal or kissed him.

19So he left and found Elisha, son of Shaphat, plowing with twelve oxen; he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by and tossed his cloak on him.

20Elisha ditched the oxen and ran after Elijah, saying, "Let me say bye to my parents first, then I’ll follow you." Elijah said, "Go back; what have I done to you?"

21Elisha went back, took a yoke of oxen, killed them, cooked the meat with the gear, and fed the people. Then he got up and followed Elijah, serving him.

1And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

2Then 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.

3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer–sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

6And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.

7And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

8And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

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

10And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

11And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

12And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

13And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

14And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

15And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:

16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel–meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

18Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

19So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

21And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.