1 Kings 19 · Verse 8

1 Kings 19:8

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.
1 Kings 19:8, King James Version

1 Kings 19:8 in other translations

BSBSo 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.
WEBHe arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.
ASVAnd 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.
YLTand 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.
DARBYAnd 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.
BBESo 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.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does 1 Kings 19:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Kings 19:4-18

4-18. went a day's journey into the wilderness--on the way from Beer-sheba to Horeb--a wide expanse of sand hills, covered with the retem (not juniper, but broom shrubs), whose tall and spreading branches, with their white leaves, afford a very cheering and refreshing shade. His gracious God did not lose sight of His fugitive servant, but watched over him, and, miraculously ministering to his wants, enabled him, in…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 19:1-8

Jezebel sent Elijah a threatening message. Carnal hearts are hardened and enraged against God, by that which should convince and conquer them. Great faith is not always alike strong. He might be serviceable to Israel at this time, and had all reason to depend upon God's protection, while doing God's work; yet he flees. His was not the deliberate desire of grace, as Paul's, to depart and be with Christ. God thus left…

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1 Kings 19:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּ֖קָםvai.Ya.komand he aroseH6965
וַיֹּ֣אכַלvai.Yo.khaland he ateH398
וַיִּשְׁתֶּ֑הvai.yish.Tehand he drankH8354
וַיֵּ֜לֶךְvai.Ye.lekhand he wentH1980
בְּכֹ֣חַ\׀be.Kho.achin [the] strength ofH3581
הָאֲכִילָ֣הha.'a.khi.Lahthe foodH396
הַהִ֗יאha.Hi'<the> thatH1931
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
יוֹם֙yOmday[s]H3117
וְאַרְבָּעִ֣יםve.'ar.ba.'Imand fortyH705
לַ֔יְלָהLay.lahnight[s]H3915
עַ֛ד'adtoH5704
הַ֥רhar[the] mountain ofH2022
הָאֱלֹהִ֖יםha.'E.lo.Him<the> GodH430
חֹרֵֽב\׃cho.RevHorebH2722

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Kings 19:8

  • Deuteronomy 9:18

    And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

  • Exodus 34:28

    And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

  • Exodus 24:18

    And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

  • Exodus 3:1

    Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

  • Matthew 4:2

    And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

  • Luke 4:2

    Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

  • 2 Corinthians 12:9

    And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

  • Malachi 4:4-5

    Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

  • Mark 1:13

    And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

  • Deuteronomy 9:9-11

    When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

  • Daniel 1:15

    And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.

  • Exodus 19:18

    And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
in the strength.
Da 1:15; 2Co 12:9
forty days.
Ex 24:18; 34:28; De 9:9,18; Mt 4:2; Mr 1:13; Lu 4:2
Horeb.
Ex 3:1; 19:18; Mal 4:4,5

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Context

  • 1 Kings 19:7

    And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

  • 1 Kings 19:8

    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.

  • 1 Kings 19:9

    And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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1 Kings 19:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Levantóse pues, y comió y bebió; y caminó con la fortaleza de aquella comida cuarenta días y cuarenta noches, hasta el monte de Dios, Horeb.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et il se leva, et mangea et but; et il alla, avec la force de ces aliments, 40 jours et 40 nuits, jusqu’à Horeb, la montagne de Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und er stand auf und aß und trank, und er ging in der Kraft dieser Speise vierzig Tage und vierzig Nächte bis an den Berg Gottes, den Horeb.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Qui cum surrexisset, comedit et bibit, et ambulavit in fortitudine cibi illius quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus usque ad montem Dei Horeb.