5Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat."


In Context

2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."

3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

4 while he himself went a day's journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, Lord ," he said. "Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors."

5 Then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat."

6 He looked around, and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, "Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you."

1st Kings 19:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise [and] eat.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And he cast himself down, end slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And he lay down and slept under the broom-bush. And behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise, eat!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, |Arise and eat!|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:5And he lieth down and sleepeth under a certain retem-tree, and lo, a messenger cometh against him, and saith to him, 'Rise, eat;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:5And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.