1 Kings 19:4

New English Translation

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Cross References

1 Kings 13:14

and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

1 Kings 19:3

Elijah was afraid, so he got up and fled for his life to Beer Sheba in Judah. He left his servant there,

1 Kings 19:5

He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

2 Kings 2:11

As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

Job 6:8

“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

Job 6:9

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Jeremiah 20:9

Sometimes I think, “I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.

Amos 6:2

They say to the people: “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?”

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, “I would rather die than live!”

Nahum 3:8

You are no more secure than Thebes – she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, herrampart was the sea, the water was her wall.

Numbers 11:15

But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”

Matthew 6:26

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

Romans 3:9

What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,