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Good News Translation

1 Kings 19:7

The Lord 's angel returned and woke him up a second time, saying, "Get up and eat, or the trip will be too much for you."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (Holy Trinity);   Angel (a Spirit);   Beer-Sheba;   Blessing;   Elijah;   Life;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elijah;   God's;   Silence-Speech;   Voice;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jezebel;   Sinai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the baptist;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Elijah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Elijah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elijah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the angel of the Lord returned for a second time and touched him. He said, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
Hebrew Names Version
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 you.
King James Version
And 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.
English Standard Version
And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you."
New Century Version
Later the Lord 's angel came to him a second time. The angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat. If you don't, the journey will be too hard for you."
New English Translation
The Lord 's angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, for otherwise you won't be able to make the journey."
Amplified Bible
Then the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Get up, and eat, for the journey is too long for you [without adequate sustenance]."
New American Standard Bible
But the angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him, and said, "Arise, eat; because the journey is too long for you."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Angel of the Lorde came againe the second time, and touched him, and sayd, Vp, and eate: for thou hast a great iourney.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the angel of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you."
Contemporary English Version
Soon the Lord 's angel woke him again and said, "Get up and eat, or else you'll get too tired to travel."
Complete Jewish Bible
The angel came again, a second time, touched him and said, "Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you."
Darby Translation
And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise, eat; for the journey is too great for thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
Later the Lord 's angel came to him again, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat! If you don't, you will not be strong enough to make the long trip."
George Lamsa Translation
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time and touched him and said, Arise, eat and drink; because the journey is too great for you.
Lexham English Bible
The angel of Yahweh appeared a second time and touched him and said, "Get up, eat, for the journey is greater than you."
Literal Translation
And the angel of Jehovah returned a second time, and touched him, and said, Get up, eat, for the way is too great for you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye angell of the LORDE, came agayne the seconde tyme, & touched him, & sayde: Stonde vp, and eate, for thou hast a greate waye to go.
American Standard Version
And the angel of Jehovah came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for thee.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the angel of the Lord came againe the seconde time, and touched him, and sayde: Up, and eate, for thou hast yet a great iourney.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And 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.'
King James Version (1611)
And the Angel of the Lord came againe the second time, and touched him, and sayd, Arise, and eate, because the iourney is too great for thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey is far from thee.
English Revised Version
And 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.
Berean Standard Bible
A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, "Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the aungel of the Lord turnede ayen the secounde tyme, and touchide hym; and `the aungel seide to hym, Rise thou, and ete; for a greet weie is to thee.
Young's Literal Translation
And the messenger of Jehovah turneth back a second time, and cometh against him, and saith, `Rise, eat, for the way is too great for thee;'
Update Bible Version
And the angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And 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.
World English Bible
The angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
New King James Version
And the angel [fn] of the Lord came back the second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you."
New Living Translation
Then the angel of the Lord came again and touched him and said, "Get up and eat some more, or the journey ahead will be too much for you."
New Life Bible
The angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him, and said, "Get up and eat. Because this traveling is too hard for you."
New Revised Standard
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."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the messenger of Yahweh came again a second time, and touched him, and said - Rise, eat, - because, too much for thee, is the journey.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said to him: Arise, eat: for thou hast yet a great way to go.
Revised Standard Version
And the angel of the LORD came again a second time, and touched him, and said, "Arise and eat, else the journey will be too great for you."
THE MESSAGE
The angel of God came back, shook him awake again, and said, "Get up and eat some more—you've got a long journey ahead of you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you."

Contextual Overview

1 King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had put all the prophets of Baal to death. 2 She sent a message to Elijah: "May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow I don't do the same thing to you that you did to the prophets." 3 Elijah was afraid and fled for his life; he took his servant and went to Beersheba in Judah. Leaving the servant there, 4 Elijah walked a whole day into the wilderness. He stopped and sat down in the shade of a tree and wished he would die. "It's too much, Lord ," he prayed. "Take away my life; I might as well be dead!" 5 He lay down under the tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Wake up and eat." 6 He looked around and saw a loaf of bread and a jar of water near his head. He ate and drank, and lay down again. 7 The Lord 's angel returned and woke him up a second time, saying, "Get up and eat, or the trip will be too much for you." 8 Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the angel: 1 Kings 19:5

because the journey: Deuteronomy 33:25, Psalms 103:13, Psalms 103:14

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 1:3 - angel Acts 12:7 - the angel

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before the guests went to bed, the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the city, both young and old, were there.
Genesis 19:9
But they said, "Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot back and moved up to break down the door.
Genesis 19:11
Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
Leviticus 18:22
No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
Deuteronomy 23:17
"No Israelite, man or woman, is to become a temple prostitute.
Judges 19:23
But the old man went outside and said to them, "No, my friends! Please! Don't do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.
Acts 17:26
From one human being he created all races of people and made them live throughout the whole earth. He himself fixed beforehand the exact times and the limits of the places where they would live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him,.... In order to awake him out of sleep:

and said unto him, arise, and eat, because the journey is too great for thee; which he had to go to Horeb, without eating more than he had; and there were no provisions to be had in a common way and manner in his road thither.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arise and eat ... - i. e., “Eat a second time, for otherwise the journey will be beyond thy powers.” “The journey” was not simply a pilgrimage to Horeb, which was less than 200 miles distant, and might have been reached in six or seven days. It was to be a wandering in the wilderness, not unlike that of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt; only it was to last forty days instead of forty years.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:7. The journey is too great for thee. — From Beer-sheba to Horeb was about one hundred and fifty miles.


 
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