1 Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, “So let the gods do to me and worse if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.”
3 Frightened, he got up and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, he left his servant there.
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”