1 Kings 19:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

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  • Num 11:15 : 15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. 15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad. 16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day; 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever. 18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
  • 1 Kgs 19:3 : 3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; 22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
  • 1 Kgs 13:14 : 14 And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.
  • Amos 6:2 : 2 Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?
  • Gen 21:15-16 : 15 And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree. 16 And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.
  • Nah 3:8 : 8 Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?
  • Matt 6:26 : 26 See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?
  • John 4:6 : 6 Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.
  • Rom 3:9 : 9 What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;
  • Phil 1:21-24 : 21 For to me life is Christ and death is profit. 22 But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make. 23 I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better: 24 Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

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  • 1 Kgs 19:5-10
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    5 And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.

    6 And looking up, he saw by his head a cake cooked on the stones and a bottle of water. So he took food and drink and went to sleep again.

    7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.

    8 So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

    9 And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

    10 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

  • 1 Kgs 19:2-3
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    2 Then Jezebel sent a servant to Elijah, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

    3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

  • Jonah 4:3-4
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    3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

    4 And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
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    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

  • 2 Sam 1:9
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    9 Then he said to me, Come here to my side, and put me to death, for the pain of death has me in its grip but my life is still strong in me.

  • Jonah 4:8
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    8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

  • Num 11:15
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    15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

  • 1 Kgs 19:13-14
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    13 And Elijah, hearing it, went out, covering his face with his robe, and took his place in the opening of the hole. And there a voice came to him saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

    14 And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

  • Judg 15:18-19
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    18 After this, he was in great need of water, and crying out to the Lord, he said, You have given this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and now need of water will be my death; and I will be given into the hands of this people who are without circumcision.

    19 Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.

  • Rom 11:3
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    3 Lord, they have put your prophets to death, and made waste your altars, and now I am the last, and they are searching for me to take away my life.

  • 1 Kgs 17:20
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    20 And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?

  • 2 Kgs 1:4
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    4 Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.

  • 1 Kgs 18:42
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    42 So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.

  • Deut 9:25
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    25 So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19-20
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    19 And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

    20 And he took him in to his mother, and she took him on her knees and kept him there till the middle of the day, when his life went from him.

  • 1 Sam 28:23
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    23 But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    66%

    22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

  • 2 Kgs 1:13-16
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    66%

    13 Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to you.

    14 For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

    15 Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.

    16 And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

  • 1 Kgs 19:20-21
    2 verses
    66%

    20 And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?

    21 And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-8
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    7 Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

    8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 1 Sam 26:19
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    19 Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

  • 1 Kgs 18:14
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    14 And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.

  • 1 Kgs 13:14
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    14 And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

  • Job 10:20
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    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • 2 Kgs 2:17
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    17 But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.

  • 1 Kgs 21:4
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    4 So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.

  • Job 6:9
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    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

  • 1 Kgs 17:2
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    2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 1:9
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    9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
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    17 Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.

  • Gen 18:4
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    4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

  • 2 Sam 12:17
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    17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

  • 2 Kgs 4:23
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    23 And he said, Why are you going to him today? it is not a new moon or a Sabbath. But she said, It is well.

  • 1 Kgs 18:12
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    12 And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.