1 Kings 19:4

Modern English Version

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Cross References

1 Kings 13:14

He went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak, and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”

1 Kings 19:3

When he saw that she was serious, he arose and ran for his life to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 19:5

As he lay and slept under the juniper tree, behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

2 Kings 2:11

As they continued walking and talking, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job 6:9

That it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off!

Jeremiah 20:9

But if I say, “I will not make mention of Him nor speak anymore in His name,” then His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary of forbearing it, and I could not endure it.

Amos 6:2

Cross over to Kalneh and see, and go from there to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines— are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory?

Jonah 4:3

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Nahum 3:8

Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, and whose wall was the water?

Numbers 11:15

If You do this to me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your eyes, and do not let me see my misery.”

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, being exhausted from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better than they? No, not at all. For we have already charged that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin.