1 Kings 19:5
Good News Translation
He lay down under the tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Wake up and eat."

New Revised Standard Version
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, “Get up and eat.”

Contemporary English Version
Then he lay down in the shade and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel woke him up and said, "Get up and eat."

New American Bible
He lay down and fell asleep under the solitary broom tree, but suddenly a messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.

as he lay

Genesis 28:11-15 And when he was come to a certain place, and would rest in it after sunset, he took of the stones that lay there, and putting under his head, slept in the same place. . . .

and angel

Psalm 34:7,10 The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them. . . .

Daniel 8:19 And he said to me: I will shew thee what things are to come to pass in the end of the malediction: for the time hath its end.

Daniel 9:21 As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly, touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice.

Daniel 10:9,10 And I heard the voice of his words: and when I heard I lay in a consternation upon my face, and my face was close to the ground. . . .

Acts 12:7 And behold an angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shined in the room. And he, striking Peter on the side, raised him up, saying: Arise quickly. And the chains fell off from his hands.

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Hebrews 13:5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

Context
Elijah Flees From Jezebel
4And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers. 5And he cast himself down, and slept in the shadow of the juniper tree: and behold an angel of the Lord touched him, and said to him: Arise and eat.6He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.…
Cross References
Genesis 28:12
And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.

1 Kings 19:4
And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

1 Kings 19:6
He looked, and behold there was at his head a hearth cake, and a vessel of water: and he ate and drank, and he fell asleep again.

Zechariah 4:1
And the angel that spoke in me came again: and he waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

1 Kings 19:4
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