1 Raja-raja 19:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi ia sendiri masuk ke padang gurun sehari perjalanan jauhnya, lalu duduk di bawah sebuah pohon arar. Kemudian ia ingin mati, katanya: "Cukuplah itu! Sekarang, ya TUHAN, ambillah nyawaku, sebab aku ini tidak lebih baik dari pada nenek moyangku."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi ia sendiri masuk ke padang gurun sehari perjalanan jauhnya, lalu duduk di bawah sebuah pohon arar. Kemudian ia ingin mati, katanya: "Cukuplah itu! Sekarang, ya TUHAN, ambillah nyawaku, sebab aku ini tidak lebih baik dari pada nenek moyangku."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
tetapi ia seorang-orangnya pergi ke padang belantara barang sehari perjalanan jauhnya, maka datanglah ia duduk di bawah sebatang pokok arar, lalu dipintanya doa supaya putuslah nyawanya, sembahnya: Terlampau sangat halku sekarang, ya Tuhan! ambillah juga akan nyawaku, karena hambamu ini tiada lebih baik dari pada segala nenek moyang hamba.

Contextual Overview

¹ And Ahab tolde Iezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slayne al the prophetes with the sworde. ² Then Iezabel sent a messenger vnto Elias, saying: So and so let the gods do to me, if I make not thy soule lyke one of theirs by to morowe this time. ³ When he sawe that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beerseba in Iuda, and left his seruaunt there. ⁴ But he him selfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sat downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desired for his soule that he might dye, and sayde: It is nowe enough O Lorde, take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers. ⁵ And as he lay and slept vnder the Iuniper tree: behold an angel touched him, and sayde vnto him: Up, and eate. ⁶ And when he loked about him, beholde there was a cake baken on the coales, and a vessell of water at his head: And he dyd eate and drinke, and layde him downe againe to sleepe. ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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.

Bible Verse Review
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sat down: 1 Kings 13:14, Genesis 21:15, Genesis 21:16, John 4:6

he requested: 1 Kings 19:3, Numbers 11:15, 2 Kings 2:11, Job 3:20-22, Jeremiah 20:14-18, Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8, Philippians 1:21-24

for himself: Heb. for his life

better: Amos 6:2, Nahum 3:8, Matthew 6:26, Romans 3:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:46 - I am Genesis 30:1 - or else I die Exodus 4:13 - send Exodus 5:22 - why is it Numbers 14:2 - Would 2 Samuel 24:16 - It is enough 1 Chronicles 21:15 - It is enough Job 3:21 - long Job 6:9 - that it would Job 7:16 - I loathe it Job 10:1 - My soul Job 40:4 - Behold Ecclesiastes 2:17 - I hated Isaiah 15:4 - his Jeremiah 8:3 - death Jeremiah 20:9 - I will Jonah 4:2 - he prayed Luke 4:1 - wilderness Revelation 12:6 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodome [were] wicked, and exceedyng sinners agaynst the Lorde.

Genesis 18:20
And the lorde saide: because the crye of Sodome and Gomorrhe is great, and because their sinne is exceding greeuous:

Genesis 19:1
And there came two angels to Sodome at euen, and Lot sate at the gate of Sodome: and Lot seing [them] rose vp to meete them, and he bowed hym selfe with his face towarde the grounde.

Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out at the doore vnto them, and shut the doores after hym.

Genesis 19:20
Beholde here is a citie by to flee vnto, euen yonder litle one: Oh let me escape thyther: Is it not a litle one, and my soule shall lyue?

Genesis 19:25
And ouerthrewe those cities, and all that plaine region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grewe vpon the earth.

Exodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the chyldren of Israel murmured agaynst Moyses and Aaron in the wyldernesse.

Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not folow a multitude to do euill, neither shalt thou speake in a matter of iustice according to the greater number, for to peruert iudgement.

Proverbs 4:16
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.

Proverbs 6:18
An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,.... Of Paran, which began near Beersheba, and was the wilderness of Arabia, in which the Israelites were near forty years; this day's journey carried him about twenty miles from Beersheba southward, as the above writer reckons:

and came and sat down under a juniper tree; Abarbinel supposes that Elijah chose to sit under this tree, to preserve him from venomous creatures, which naturalists say will not come near it; and Pliny o indeed observes, that it being burnt will drive away serpents, and that some persons anoint themselves with the oil of it, for fear of them; and yet Virgil p represents the shade of a juniper tree as noxious; hence some interpreters take this to be a piece of carelessness and indifference of the prophet's, where he sat:

and he requested for himself that he might die; for though he fled from Jezebel to preserve his life, not choosing to die by her hands, which would cause her prophets to exult and triumph, yet was now desirous of dying by the hand of the Lord, and in a place where his death would not be known:

[it is] enough, now, O Lord, take away my life; intimating that he had lived long enough, even as long as he desired; and he had done as much work for God as he thought he had to do; he supposed his service and usefulness were at an end, and therefore desired his dismission:

for [I am not] better than my fathers that he should not die, or live longer than they; but this desire was not like that of the Apostle Paul's, but like that of Job and of Jonah; not so much to be with God and Christ, as to be rid of the troubles of life.

o Nat. Hist. l. 24. c. 8. p "Juniperi gravis umbra----" Bucol. Eclog. 10. ver. 76.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Elijah did not feel himself safe until he was beyond the territory of Judah, for Ahab might demand him of Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 18:10, with whom he was on terms of close alliance 1 Kings 22:4. He, therefore, proceeds southward into the desert, simply to be out of the reach of his enemies.

A juniper-tree - The tree here mentioned רתם rethem is not the juniper but a species of broom (Genista monosperma), called “rethem” by the Arabs, which abounds in the Sinaitic peninsula. It grows to such a size as to afford shade and protection, both in heat and storm, to travelers.

Requested for himself that he might die - Like Moses and Jonah (marginal references). The prophet’s depression here reached its lowest point. He was still suffering from the reaction of overstrained feeling; he was weary with nights and days of travel; he was faint with the sun’s heat; he was exhausted for want of food; he was for the first time alone - alone in the awful solitude and silence of the great white desert. Such solitude might brace the soul in certain moods; but in others it must utterly overwhelm and crush. Thus the prophet at length gave way completely - made his prayer that he might die - and, exhausted sank, to sleep.

I am not better than my fathers - i. e., “I am a mere weak man, no better nor stronger than they who have gone before me, no more able to revolutionize the world than they.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:4. A day's journey into the wilderness — Probably in his way to Mount Horeb. See 1 Kings 19:8.

Juniper tree — A tree that afforded him a shade from the scorching sun.

It is enough — I have lived long enough! I can do no more good among this people; let me now end my days.