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Pentecost Season · Proper 14 · Year B

1 Kings 19:4-8

Elijah Fed by the Angel

August 8, 2027

Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederic, Lord Leighton
Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1878Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Leighton's prophet is sprawled asleep on the ground, exhausted, with the angel bending over him and the food already set beside his head.Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you: the reading is a man too tired to go on, being fed before being argued with.Walker Art Gallery, LiverpoolLiverpool's civic gallery, given by a brewer in 1877, with a strong Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite collection.Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelJohn 6:35, 41-51Jn 6:35, 41-51
EpistleEph. 4:25-5:2Eph 4:25-5:2
Old Testament2 Sam. 18:5-9, 15, 31-332 Sm 18:5-9, 15, 31-33Alt. OT1 Kings 19:4-81 Kgs 19:4-8
PsalterPs. 130Ps 130Alt. PsalmPs. 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

Working Preacher: Commentary on 1 Kings 19:4-8Working Preacher: Commentary on 1 Kgs 19:4-8 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on the prophet fed in the wilderness for the semicontinuous track.

Enduring Word: 1 Kings 19Enduring Word: 1 Kgs 19 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the whole chapter.

Precept Austin: 1 Kings 19 CommentaryPrecept Austin: 1 Kgs 19 Commentary Precept Austin

Detailed study gathering many commentators on Elijah at Horeb.

BibleHub: Commentaries on 1 Kings 19:4BibleHub: Commentaries on 1 Kgs 19:4 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the reading's opening verse.

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

Reformed preaching commentary on God's provision for a despairing prophet.

Background & Word Study

BibleProject: 1-2 Kings OverviewBibleProject: 1-2 Kgs Overview BibleProject

Animated overview of the story and themes of 1 and 2 Kings.

Sefaria: I Kings 19 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: 1 Kings 19 InterlinearBibleHub: 1 Kgs 19 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of the chapter.

The Church Fathers

Catena: 1 Kings 19Catena: 1 Kgs 19 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on 1 Kings 19.

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