1 Kings 19:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:14

And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

1 Kings 19:3

And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

1 Kings 19:5

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.

2 Kings 2:11

And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

Job 6:8

If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

Job 6:9

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

Jeremiah 20:9

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.

Amos 6:2

Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?

Jonah 4:3

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

Jonah 4:8

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

Nahum 3:8

Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters?

Numbers 11:15

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

Matthew 6:26

See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

John 4:6

Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

Romans 3:9

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;