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Time after Pentecost · Proper 14 · Year B

1 Kings 19:1-8

Elijah Fed by the Angel

August 8, 2027

The Prophet Elijah in the Desert, Dieric Bouts
The Prophet Elijah in the Desert, Dieric Bouts, 1464–67Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven
A wing of the Last Supper altarpiece. The prophet sleeps under a tree in a Flemish landscape while the angel bends to wake him, with the loaf already set out.Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.Dieric BoutsA Netherlandish painter in Leuven, known for still, elongated figures and for being among the first to use a single vanishing point.Sint-Pieterskerk, LeuvenA Flemish Gothic church in the university town of Leuven, which still holds the Bouts altarpieces painted for it.Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelJohn 6:35-51Jn 6:35-51
EpistleEph. 4:17-5:2Eph 4:17-5:2
Old Testament1 Kings 19:1-81 Kgs 19:1-8
PsalterPs. 34:1-8Ps 34:1-8

Overview & Insights

"Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you." (1 Kings 19:7)

Exhausted and wishing to die, Elijah is met under a broom tree by an angel who twice provides food and water, giving him strength for the forty-day journey to Horeb.

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Commentary

1 Kings 19 - Elijah Runs, God Speaks1 Kgs 19 - Elijah Runs, God Speaks Enduring Word · David Guzik

A verse-by-verse study of the prophet's flight, despair, and the angel's provision.

1 Kings 19:4-8 Commentary1 Kgs 19:4-8 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

A Reformed preaching commentary on the angel feeding the exhausted prophet, overlapping the appointed verses.

1 Kings 19 Commentary1 Kgs 19 Commentary Precept Austin

An inductive study page gathering word studies and cross references on Elijah at Horeb.

1 Kings 19:1 Commentaries1 Kgs 19:1 Commentaries BibleHub

Classic commentaries gathered verse by verse on Elijah's flight from Jezebel.

1 Kings 19:1 Verse-by-Verse Commentary1 Kgs 19:1 Verse-by-Verse Commentary StudyLight

A deep library of expositors stacked verse by verse for a fifth voice on the passage.

Background & Word Study

I Kings 19 (Hebrew and English) Sefaria

The Hebrew of the chapter alongside English with linked Jewish commentary for the OT reading.

1 Kings 19:1 Interlinear1 Kgs 19:1 Interlinear BibleHub

The Hebrew of the narrative word by word with parsing and Strong's numbers.

The Church Fathers

1 Kings 19 (Catena)1 Kgs 19 (Catena) Catena

Early church readings of Elijah's bread in the wilderness, often heard as a figure of the Eucharist.

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