19:3 Elijah was afraid, ¹  so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there, 19:4 while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub ²  and asked the Lord to take his life: ³  “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.” ⁴  19:5 He stretched out ⁵  and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger ⁶  touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”