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1 Kings 19:5

He lay down and slept under the juniper tree, and behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Angel (a Spirit);   Beer-Sheba;   Blessing;   Elijah;   Juniper;   Life;   Minister, Christian;   Miracles;   Trouble;   Thompson Chain Reference - Angels;   Elijah;   God's;   Ministering Angels;   Silence-Speech;   Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;   Voice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Angels;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jezebel;   Juniper;   Sinai;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Angels;   John the baptist;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Elijah;   Juniper;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Angel;   Broom Tree;   Elijah;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ahab;   Angel;   Beersheba;   Bread;   Elijah;   Juniper;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Minister, Ministration;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Juniper,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elijah;   Juniper;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Juniper,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Sleep (and forms);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beersheba;   Elijah;   Wanderings of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Angelology;   Juniper;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 28;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for February 17;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree.
Hebrew Names Version
He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
King James Version
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
English Standard Version
And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Arise and eat."
New Century Version
Then he lay down under the tree and slept. Suddenly an angel came to him and touched him. "Get up and eat," the angel said.
New English Translation
He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, "Get up and eat."
New American Standard Bible
Then he lay down and fell asleep under a broom tree; but behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And as he lay and slept vnder the iuniper tree, behold now, an Angel touched him, and said vnto him, Vp, and eate.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, 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."
Complete Jewish Bible
Then he lay down under the broom tree and went to sleep. Suddenly, an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat!"
Darby Translation
And he lay down and slept under the broom-bush. And behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise, eat!
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Elijah lay down under the bush and went to sleep. An angel came to him and touched him. The angel said, "Get up and eat!"
George Lamsa Translation
Then he lay down and slept soundly under the oak tree; and, behold, an angel touched him and said to him, Arise and eat.
Good News Translation
He lay down under the tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Wake up and eat."
Lexham English Bible
He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel was touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!"
Literal Translation
And he lay down and slept under a certain broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him and said to him, Get up, eat!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he layed him downe & slepte vnder the Iuniper tre. And beholde, ye angell touched him, & sayde vnto him: Stonde vp, and eate.
American Standard Version
And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Bible in Basic English
And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And as he lay and slept vnder the Iuniper tree: behold an angel touched him, and sayde vnto him: Up, and eate.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he lay down and slept under a broom-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him: 'Arise and eat.'
King James Version (1611)
And as hee lay and slept vnder a Iuniper tree, behold then, an Angel touched him, and sayd vnto him, Arise, and eate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he lay down and slept there under a tree; and behold, some one touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
English Revised Version
And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Berean Standard Bible
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he castide forth hym silf, and slepte in the schadewe of the iunypere tree. And lo! the aungel of the Lord touchide hym, and seide to hym, Rise thou, and ete.
Young's Literal Translation
And he lieth down and sleepeth under a certain retem-tree, and lo, a messenger cometh against him, and saith to him, `Rise, eat;'
Update Bible Version
And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, look, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
Webster's Bible Translation
And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise [and] eat.
World English Bible
He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
New King James Version
Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel [fn] touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."
New Living Translation
Then he lay down and slept under the broom tree. But as he was sleeping, an angel touched him and told him, "Get up and eat!"
New Life Bible
When he lay down and slept under the juniper tree, an angel touched him. The angel said to him, "Get up and eat."
New Revised Standard
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as he lay, and slept, under a certain shrub, lo! a messenger, touching him, who said to him - Rise, 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.
Revised Standard Version
And he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, "Arise and eat."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, "Arise, eat."

Contextual Overview

1Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets [of Baal] with the sword. 2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and even more, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of one of them." 3And Elijah was afraid and arose and ran for his life, and he came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there. 4But he himself traveled a day's journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." 5He lay down and slept under the juniper tree, and behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat."6He looked, and by his head there was a bread cake baked on hot coal, and a pitcher of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again. 7Then the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, "Get up, and eat, for the journey is too long for you [without adequate sustenance]." 8So he got up and ate and drank, and with the strength of that food he traveled forty days and nights to Horeb (Sinai), the mountain of God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as he lay: Genesis 28:11-15

an angel: Psalms 34:7, Psalms 34:10, Daniel 8:19, Daniel 9:21, Daniel 10:9, Daniel 10:10, Acts 12:7, Hebrews 1:14, Hebrews 13:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:4 - I have commanded 1 Kings 19:7 - the angel 2 Kings 1:3 - angel Zechariah 4:1 - waked Mark 1:13 - and the John 21:9 - they saw

Cross-References

Genesis 19:23
The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained down brimstone (flaming sulfur) and fire on Sodom and on Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,
Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife, from behind him, [foolishly, longingly] looked [back toward Sodom in an act of disobedience], and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham started out early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the LORD;
Leviticus 18:22
'You shall not lie [intimately] with a male as one lies with a female; it is repulsive.
Leviticus 20:13
'If a man lies [intimately] with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed a detestable (perverse, unnatural) act; they shall most certainly be put to death; their blood is on them.
Judges 19:22
While they were celebrating, behold, men of the city, certain worthless and evil men, surrounded the house, pounding on the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that we may have relations with him."
Isaiah 1:9
If the LORD of hosts Had not left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 3:9
Their partiality testifies against them, They display their sin like Sodom; They do not even hide it. Woe (judgment is coming) to them! For they have brought evil on themselves [as a reward].
Jeremiah 3:3
"Therefore the showers have been withheld, And there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute; You refuse to be ashamed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree,.... Being weary and fatigued with his journey, the same under which he sat; for there was but one, as that is said to be in the preceding verse:

behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, arise, and eat; so far was the Lord from granting his request to take away his life, that he made provision to preserve it; so careful was he of him, as to give an angel charge to get food ready for him, and then awake him to eat of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An angel touched him - The friendly ministration of angels, common in the time of the patriarchs Genesis 18:2-16; Genesis 19:1-22; Genesis 28:12; Genesis 32:1, Genesis 32:24-29, and known also under the Judges Judges 6:11-21; Judges 13:3-20, was now extended to Elijah. Any other explanation of this passage does violence to the words. It is certainly not the intention of the writer to represent Elijah as relieved on this occasion by a human “messenger.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:5. As he lay and slept — Excessive anguish of mind frequently induces sleep, as well as great fatigue of body.

An angel touched him — He needed refreshment, and God sent an angel to bring him what was necessary.


 
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