1And Achaab told Jezabel his wife all that Eliu had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword.

2And Jezabel sent to Eliu, and said, If you are Eliu and I am Jezabel, God ²⁷³do so to me, and more also, if I do not make your life by this time to-morrow as the life of one of them.

3And Eliu feared, and rose, and departed for his life: and he comes to Bersabee to the land of Juda, and he left his servant there.

4And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray you, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

5And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

6And Eliu looked, and, behold, at his head there was a cake of meal and a cruse of water; and he arose, and ate and drank, and returned and lay down.

7And the angel of the Lord returned again, and touched him, and said to him, Arise, and eat, for the journey is far from you.

8And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.

9And he entered there into a cave, and rested there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said, What do you here, Eliu?

10And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken you: they have digged down your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword; and I only am left alone, and they seek my life to take it.

11And he said, You shall go forth to-morrow, and shall stand before the Lord in the mount; behold, the Lord will pass by. And, behold, a great and strong wind rending the mountains, and crushing the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

12and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire the voice of a gentle breeze.

13And it came to pass when Eliu heard, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went forth and stood in the cave: and, behold, a voice came to him and said, What do you here, Eliu?

14And Eliu said, I have been very jealous for the Lord Almighty; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, and they have overthrown your altars, and have slain your prophets with the sword! and I am left entirely alone, and they seek my life to take it.

15And the Lord said to him, Go, return, and you shall come into the way of the wilderness of Damascus: and you shall go and anoint Azael to be king over Syria.

16And Ju the son of Namessi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisaie the son of Saphat shall you anoint to be prophet in your room.

17And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Azael, Ju shall kill; and him that escapes from the sword of Ju, Elisaie shall kill.

18And you shall leave in Israel seven thousand men, all the knees which had not bowed ²⁷⁴themselves to Baal, and every mouth which had not worshipped him.

19And he departed thence, and finds Elisaie the son of Saphat, and he was plowing with oxen; there were twelve yoke before him, and he ²⁷⁵with the twelve, and he ²⁷⁶passed by to him, and cast his mantle upon him.

20And Elisaie left the cattle, and ran after Eliu and said, I will kiss my father, and follow after you. And Eliu said, Return, for I have done a work for you.

21And he returned ²⁷⁷from following him, and took ²⁷⁸a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled them with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and he arose, and went after Eliu, and ministered to him.