So Elijah got up. He ate and drank. The food made Elijah strong enough to walk for 40 days and nights. He walked to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
Deuteronomy 9:9 - Easy To Read Version I went up the mountain to get the flat stones. The Agreement that the Lord made with you was written on those stones. I stayed on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights. I did not eat any food or drink any water. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I neither ate food nor drank water. American Standard Version (1901) When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. Common English Bible When I went up on the mountain to get the stone tablets, the covenant tablets that the LORD made with you, I was up there forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread, drank no water. Catholic Public Domain Version when I ascended onto the mountain, so that I might receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the Lord formed with you. And I persevered on the mountain for forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When I went up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you. And I continued in the mount forty days and nights, neither eating bread, nor drinking water. |
So Elijah got up. He ate and drank. The food made Elijah strong enough to walk for 40 days and nights. He walked to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
Elisha answered, “No, don’t kill them. You would not kill people that you captured in war with your sword and with your bow {and arrows}. Give the Aramean army some bread and water. Let them eat and drink. Then let them go home to their master.”
The Lord said to Moses, “Come to me on the mountain. I have written my teachings and laws on two flat stones. These teachings and laws are for the people. I will give these flat stones to you.”
Then Moses went higher up the mountain into the cloud. Moses was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.
So the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai. Then the Lord gave him the two flat stones with the Agreement [325] on them. God used his finger and wrote on the stones.
The people saw that a long time had passed and Moses had not come down from the mountain. So the people gathered around Aaron. They said to him, “Look, Moses led us out of the land of Egypt. But we don’t know what has happened to him. So make us some gods to go before us and lead us.”
Moses stayed there with the Lord for 40 days and 40 nights. Moses did not eat any food or drink any water. And he (the Lord)} wrote the words of the Agreement (the Ten Commandments) on the two flat stones.
Jesus ate nothing for 40 days and nights. After this, he was very hungry.
This true story makes a picture for us. The two women are like the two agreements (covenants) between God and his people. One agreement is \{the law that God made\} on Mount Sinai. {\cf2\super [55]} The people who are under this agreement are like slaves. The mother named Hagar is like that agreement.
The Lord humbled you and let you be hungry. Then he fed you with manna [49] —something you did not know about before. It was something your ancestors [50] had never seen. Why did the Lord do these things? Because he wanted you to know that it is not just bread that keeps people alive. People’s lives depend on what the Lord says.
“So, at the end of 40 days and 40 nights, the Lord gave me two flat stones—the stones of the Agreement.
“Then I turned and came down from the mountain. The mountain was burning with fire. And the two flat stones of the Agreement were in my hands.
Then I bowed down before the Lord with my face to the ground for 40 days and 40 nights, like I did before. I did not eat any food or drink any water. I did this because you had sinned so badly. You did the thing that is evil to the Lord, and you made him angry.
In the Most Holy Place was a golden altar {\cf2\super [94]} for burning incense. {\cf2\super [95]} And also there was the Holy Box of the Agreement. {\cf2\super [96]} The box was covered with gold. Inside this box was a golden jar of manna {\cf2\super [97]} and Aaron’s rod (stick)—the rod that once grew leaves. Also in the box were the flat rocks \{with the Ten Commandments\} of the old agreement \{written on them\}.