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1 Kings 19:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Elijah asks to die and receives food, sleep, and a journey.”
Under a juniper he asks to die
This verse is one part of that explanation in 1 Kings 19:4–8. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 19:4–8
Read 1 Kings 19:6 with 19:4–8. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Lets an exhausted and isolated Elijah ask to die under a desert shrub without treating despair as moral failure; sustains Elijah for forty days and nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Elijah asks to die and receives food, sleep, and a journey,” 1 Kings 19:6 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 1 Kings 19:1–3 establishes this prior movement: Has Ahab report both the Carmel events and Elijah's killing of the prophets to Jezebel; shows Elijah fleeing for his life to Judah's Beersheba and leaving his servant there. 1 Kings 19:4–8 responds to the pressure, request, or claim already established; that demonstrated relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 1 Kings 19:4–8 together
Why these verses belong together: Elijah asks to die and receives food, sleep, and a journey is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 19:4–19:8.
Verse 4. 4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Verse 5. 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
Verse 6. 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
Verse 7. 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.
Verse 8. 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.
What Remains True
Faithful care keeps bodily need, grief, danger, agency, and honest uncertainty visible rather than converting suffering into blame or a promised formula. This unit tests that truth through lets an exhausted and isolated Elijah ask to die under a desert shrub without treating despair as moral failure; sustains Elijah for forty days and nights to Horeb, the mountain of God. In 1 Kings 19:6, the concrete line “And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 1 Kings 19:4–8 — Elijah asks to die and receives food, sleep, and a journeySources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 19:4–8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 19:4–8
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 621–622, translation and translator notes for 19:4–8
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