1 Kings 19:8

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Modern

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Traditional

And 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.

Literal

And he arose and ate and drank, and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God—Horeb.

Latin

Qui cum surrexisset, comedit et bibit, et ambulavit in fortitudine cibi illius quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus usque ad montem Dei Horeb.

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Hebrew

English

So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Notes

1 Kings 19:8

Elijah was determined to reach Mount Sinai, a journey of about 200 miles. This trip did not need to take forty days and nights. Elijah might have traveled at a symbolic pace, reflecting Israel's history. Moses spent forty days on Mount Sinai, and Israel wandered in the wilderness for forty years (Numbers 14:33–34; Deuteronomy 1:2–3). The number forty sometimes symbolized a complete period of testing (Genesis 7:4; Psalm 95:10; Jonah 3:4; Matthew 4:1–2).

1 Kings 17:1–19:21

The prophet Elijah's work was closely tied to his spiritual growth. Elijah challenged Israel's interest in Baal, the Canaanite storm god. During this conflict, Elijah saw God's power and support, unlike Baal's weakness. This was shown in Elijah's contest with Baal's prophets on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:1–46). After fleeing from Jezebel, God renewed Elijah's mission at Mount Sinai (1 Kings 19:1–18). Elijah's mission was finished by his successor, Elisha (1 Kings 19:19–21).

Theme notes and profiles

Ahab Elijah Jezebel Complaints Persecution Prophets in 1 Kings Suffering in Following God The Suffering Prophet

Events

Prophecies of Elijah

Related verses

Exodus 34:28
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Exodus 3:1
Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Malachi 4:4–5
“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
Luke 4:2
…where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
2 Corinthians 12:9
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Mark 1:13
…and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.
Deuteronomy 9:9–11
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Exodus 19:18
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
Daniel 1:15
And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.

Places

Sinai: Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments

Glossary

Ahab (King) Desert Earthquake John the Baptist Kings, Books of First and Second Miracle Mount Sinai Mount, Mountain Remnant

Topics

Angel (A Spirit): Ministrant to the Righteous Blessing: Temporal, from God by an Angel Christian Minister: God's Care of Christian Minister: Trials and Persecutions of Elijah: Fasts for Forty Days Escapes to the Wilderness from the Fierceness of Jezebel Fasting: Extraordinary Exemplified: Elijah Fasting: Prolonged: Elijah Forty: Days by Elijah God: Feeding Elijah and the Widow Horeb: A Range of Mountains of Which Mount Sinai is the Most Prominent Life: (Sacredness of, an Inference from What is Taught in the Law Concerning Murder): Elijah Miracles: Catalogue of Is Fed by an Angel Prophets: Often Led a Wandering and Unsettled Life Spiritual Food Trouble: Elijah, Under the Juniper Tree and in the Cave

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