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A day into the wilderness, the exhausted Elijah sits alone beneath a broom tree in despair.
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1 Kings 19:4

Under the broom tree

Elijah at Horeb and Elisha’s Call · 1 Kings 19

Story guide: Elijah sits alone beneath a broom tree, a day's journey into the wilderness, worn out and asking to die.

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4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and sat down under a broom bush. He asked to die, saying, “I have had enough, Yahweh. Take my life now, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

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