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New American Standard Bible (1995)

1 Kings 19:8

So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Blessing;   Elijah;   Fasting;   Forty;   Horeb;   Life;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Days;   Elijah;   Enduring, the;   Fasting;   Forty Days;   God's;   Horeb, Mount;   Mountains;   Periods and Numbers;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Silence-Speech;   Transient-Enduring;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fasting;   Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Jezebel;   Sinai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the baptist;   Sinai;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Fast;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Number;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Elijah;   Fasting;   Horeb;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Pilgrimage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Elijah;   Meals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   Originality;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fast, Fasting;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount horeb;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Horeb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Fasting;   Horeb;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elijah;   Fast;   God;   Number;   Sinai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - High Place;   Numbers and Numerals;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 28;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Hebrew Names Version
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horev the Mount of God.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.
New Century Version
So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
New English Translation
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
Amplified Bible
So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.
New American Standard Bible
So he arose and ate and drank, and he journeyed in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he arose, and did eate and drinke, and walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.
Legacy Standard Bible
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Contemporary English Version
So Elijah sat up and ate and drank. The food and water made him strong enough to walk forty more days. At last, he reached Mount Sinai, the mountain of God,
Complete Jewish Bible
He got up, ate and drank, and, on the strength of that meal, traveled forty days and nights until he reached Horev the mountain of God.
Darby Translation
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Elijah got up. He ate and drank and felt strong. Then Elijah walked for 40 days and nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
George Lamsa Translation
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb the mount of God.
Good News Translation
Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.
Lexham English Bible
So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Literal Translation
And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the power of that food forty days and forty nights to the mount of God, Horeb.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he arose, and ate and drake, and wente on thorow the strength of that meate fortye dayes and fortye nightes, eue vnto Horeb ye mount of God:
American Standard Version
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he arose, and dyd eate and drinke, & walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, euen vnto Horeb the mount of God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
King James Version (1611)
And hee arose, and did eate and drinke, and went in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde rise, he ete, and drank; and he yede in the strengthe of that mete bi fourti dayes and fourti nyytis, `til to Oreb, the hil of God.
Young's Literal Translation
and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.
Update Bible Version
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
World English Bible
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.
New King James Version
So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.
New Living Translation
So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
New Life Bible
So he got up and ate and drank. And he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
New Revised Standard
He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he arose, and did eat and drink, - and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God - Horeb.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.
Revised Standard Version
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
THE MESSAGE
He got up, ate and drank his fill, and set out. Nourished by that meal, he walked forty days and nights, all the way to the mountain of God, to Horeb. When he got there, he crawled into a cave and went to sleep. Then the word of God came to him: "So Elijah, what are you doing here?"

Contextual Overview

1 Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." 3 And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But 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 my life, for I am not better than my fathers." 5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat." 6 Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7 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." 8 So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the strength: Daniel 1:15, 2 Corinthians 12:9

forty days: Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2

Horeb: Exodus 3:1, Exodus 19:18, Malachi 4:4, Malachi 4:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:12 - forty Exodus 4:27 - the mount Exodus 18:5 - General Acts 1:3 - forty Acts 7:30 - there

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
and I will bring a piece of bread, that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant." And they said, "So do, as you have said."
Genesis 19:31
Then the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of the earth.
Genesis 19:38
As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.
Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you."
Exodus 32:22
Aaron said, "Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil.
Judges 9:15
"The bramble said to the trees, 'If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.'
Judges 19:24
"Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please let me bring them out that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish. But do not commit such an act of folly against this man."
Isaiah 58:7
"Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
Mark 9:6
For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.
Romans 3:8
And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he arose, and did eat and drink,.... Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him:

and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God; for so long he was going to that place, though it might have been gone in three or four days; but he went in byways, and wandered about in the wilderness, as the Israelites did, and that for the space of forty days, as they did near forty years; and all this while he had no other sustenance than what he had taken under the juniper tree, from whence he set out, which must be supernatural; for it is said t, a man cannot live without food beyond seven days, :- the food either staying in his stomach all this while, or however the nutritive virtue of it, by which he was supported, and held out till he came to Horeb or Sinai; called the mount of the Lord, because here he had appeared to Moses in the bush, and from hence gave the law to the children of Israel. Abarbinel is of opinion that this term of forty days was consumed in his whole journey to Horeb, his stay there, and return to the land of Israel.

t Macrob. in Soma Scipion. l. 1. c. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The old commentators generally understood this to mean that Elijah had no other food at all, and compared this long fast with that of Moses and that of our Lord (marginal references). But the words do not exclude the notion of the prophet’s having obtained such nourishment from roots and fruits as the desert offers to a wanderer, though these alone would not have sustained him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:8. Forty days and forty nights — So he fasted just the same time as Moses did at Horeb, and as Christ did in the wilderness.


 
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