1 Kings 19:8

Contemporary English Version

So Elijah sat up and ate and drank. The food and water made him strong enough to walk forty more days. At last, he reached Mount Sinai, the mountain of God,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Hebrew Names Version
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horev the Mount of God.

King James Version
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

English Standard Version
And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.

New Century Version
So Elijah got up and ate and drank. The food made him strong enough to walk for forty days and nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.

New English Translation
So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Amplified Bible
So 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.

New American Standard Bible
So he arose and ate and drank, and he journeyed in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he arose, and did eate and drinke, and walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.

Legacy Standard Bible
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Complete Jewish Bible
He got up, ate and drank, and, on the strength of that meal, traveled forty days and nights until he reached Horev the mountain of God.

Darby Translation
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Elijah got up. He ate and drank and felt strong. Then Elijah walked for 40 days and nights to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

George Lamsa Translation
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb the mount of God.

Good News Translation
Elijah got up, ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to walk forty days to Sinai, the holy mountain.

Lexham English Bible
So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Literal Translation
And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the power of that food forty days and forty nights to the mount of God, Horeb.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he arose, and ate and drake, and wente on thorow the strength of that meate fortye dayes and fortye nightes, eue vnto Horeb ye mount of God:

American Standard Version
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Bible in Basic English
So he got up and took food and drink, and in the strength of that food he went on for forty days and nights, to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he arose, and dyd eate and drinke, & walked in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, euen vnto Horeb the mount of God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

King James Version (1611)
And hee arose, and did eate and drinke, and went in the strength of that meate fourtie dayes and fourtie nights, vnto Horeb the mount of God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to mount Choreb.

English Revised Version
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Berean Standard Bible
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne he hadde rise, he ete, and drank; and he yede in the strengthe of that mete bi fourti dayes and fourti nyytis, `til to Oreb, the hil of God.

Young's Literal Translation
and he riseth, and eateth, and drinketh, and goeth in the power of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God -- Horeb.

Update Bible Version
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

World English Bible
He arose, and ate and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the Mount of God.

New King James Version
So he arose, and ate and drank; and he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Horeb, the mountain of God.

New Living Translation
So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.

New Life Bible
So he got up and ate and drank. And he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

New Revised Standard
He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So he arose, and did eat and drink, - and journeyed, in the strength of that eating, forty days and forty nights, as far as the mountain of God - Horeb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he arose, and ate and drank, and walked in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto the mount of God, Horeb.

Revised Standard Version
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

THE MESSAGE
He got up, ate and drank his fill, and set out. Nourished by that meal, he walked forty days and nights, all the way to the mountain of God, to Horeb. When he got there, he crawled into a cave and went to sleep. Then the word of God came to him: "So Elijah, what are you doing here?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Contextual Overview

¹ Ahab told his wife Jezebel what Elijah had done and that he had killed the prophets. ² She sent a message to Elijah: "You killed my prophets. Now I'm going to kill you! I pray that the gods will punish me even more severely if I don't do it by this time tomorrow." ³ Elijah was afraid when he got her message, and he ran to the town of Beersheba in Judah. He left his servant there, ⁴ then walked another whole day into the desert. Finally, he came to a large bush and sat down in its shade. He begged the Lord , "I've had enough. Just let me die! I'm no better off than my ancestors." ⁵ Then he lay down in the shade and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel woke him up and said, "Get up and eat." ⁶ Elijah looked around, and by his head was a jar of water and some baked bread. He sat up, ate and drank, then lay down and went back to sleep. ⁷ Soon the Lord 's angel woke him again and said, "Get up and eat, or else you'll get too tired to travel." ⁸ So Elijah sat up and ate and drank. The food and water made him strong enough to walk forty more days. At last, he reached Mount Sinai, the mountain of God,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the strength: Daniel 1:15, 2 Corinthians 12:9

forty days: Exodus 24:18, Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 9:9, Deuteronomy 9:18, Matthew 4:2, Mark 1:13, Luke 4:2

Horeb: Exodus 3:1, Exodus 19:18, Malachi 4:4, Malachi 4:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:12 - forty Exodus 4:27 - the mount Exodus 18:5 - General Acts 1:3 - forty Acts 7:30 - there

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
Let me get you some food to give you strength before you leave. I would be honored to serve you." "Thank you very much," they answered. "We accept your offer."

Genesis 19:31
One day his older daughter said to her sister, "Our father is old, and there are no men anywhere for us to marry.

Genesis 19:38
The younger daughter named her son Benammi, and he is the ancestor of the Ammonites.

Genesis 42:37
Reuben spoke up, "Father, if I don't bring Benjamin back, you can kill both of my sons. Trust me with him, and I will bring him back."

Exodus 32:22
Aaron answered: Don't be angry with me. You know as well as I do that they are determined to do evil.

Judges 9:15
The thornbush replied, "If you really want me to be your king, then come into my shade and I will protect you. But if you're deceiving me, I'll start a fire that will spread out and destroy the cedars of Lebanon." After Jotham had finished telling this story, he said:

Judges 19:24
Let me send out my daughter instead. She's a virgin. And I'll even send out the man's wife. You can rape them or do whatever else you want, but please don't do such a horrible thing to this man."

Isaiah 58:7
Share your food with everyone who is hungry; share your home with the poor and homeless. Give clothes to those in need; don't turn away your relatives.

Mark 9:6
But Peter and the others were terribly frightened, and he did not know what he was talking about.

Romans 3:8
You might as well say, "Let's do something evil, so that something good will come of it!" Some people even claim that we are saying this. But God is fair and will judge them as well.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he arose, and did eat and drink,.... Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him:

and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God; for so long he was going to that place, though it might have been gone in three or four days; but he went in byways, and wandered about in the wilderness, as the Israelites did, and that for the space of forty days, as they did near forty years; and all this while he had no other sustenance than what he had taken under the juniper tree, from whence he set out, which must be supernatural; for it is said t, a man cannot live without food beyond seven days, :- the food either staying in his stomach all this while, or however the nutritive virtue of it, by which he was supported, and held out till he came to Horeb or Sinai; called the mount of the Lord, because here he had appeared to Moses in the bush, and from hence gave the law to the children of Israel. Abarbinel is of opinion that this term of forty days was consumed in his whole journey to Horeb, his stay there, and return to the land of Israel.

t Macrob. in Soma Scipion. l. 1. c. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The old commentators generally understood this to mean that Elijah had no other food at all, and compared this long fast with that of Moses and that of our Lord (marginal references). But the words do not exclude the notion of the prophet’s having obtained such nourishment from roots and fruits as the desert offers to a wanderer, though these alone would not have sustained him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 19:8. Forty days and forty nights — So he fasted just the same time as Moses did at Horeb, and as Christ did in the wilderness.