while he himself traveled on a day's journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers." Cross References Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now--if I have found favor in Your eyes--and let me not see my own wretchedness." 1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, "Get up and eat." Job 6:9 that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off! Jeremiah 20:9 If I say, "I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name," His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail. Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live." Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, "It is better for me to die than to live." Treasury of Scripture 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. sat down 1 Kings 13:14 Genesis 21:15,16 John 4:6 he requested 1 Kings 19:3 Numbers 11:15 2 Kings 2:11 for himself [heb] for his life Amos 6:2 Nahum 3:8 Matthew 6:26 |