slew them. Elijah also said to the king, that he should go to dinner
without any further concern, for that in a little time he would see God
send them rain. Accordingly Ahab went his way. But Elijah went up to the
highest top of Mount Carmel, and sat down upon the ground, and leaned
his head upon his knees, and bade his servant go up to a certain
elevated place, and look towards the sea, and when he should see a cloud
rising any where, he should give him notice of it, for till that time
the air had been clear. When the Servant had gone up, and had said many
times that he saw nothing, at the seventh time of his going up, he said
that he saw a small black thing in the sky, not larger than a man's
foot. When Elijah heard that, he sent to Ahab, and desired him to go
away to the city before the rain came down. So he came to the city
Jezreel; and in a little time the air was all obscured, and covered with
clouds, and a vehement storm of wind came upon the earth, and with it
a great deal of rain; and the prophet was under a Divine fury, and
ran along with the king's chariot unto Jezreel a city of Izar [35]
[Issaachar].

7. When Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, understood what signs Elijah had
wrought, and how he had slain her prophets, she was angry, and sent
messengers to him, and by them threatened to kill him, as he had
destroyed her prophets. At this Elijah was affrighted, and fled to the
city called Beersheba, which is situate at the utmost limits of the
country belonging to the tribe of Judah, towards the land of Edom; and
there he left his servant, and went away into the desert. He prayed also
that he might die, for that he was not better than his fathers, nor need
he be very desirous to live, when they were dead; and he lay and slept
under a certain tree; and when somebody awakened him, and he was risen
up, he found food set by him and water: so when he had eaten, and
recovered his strength by that his food, he came to that mountain which
is called Sinai, where it is related that Moses received his laws from
God; and finding there a certain hollow cave, he entered into it, and
continued to make his abode in it. But when a certain voice came to him,
but from whence he knew not, and asked him, why he was come thither, and
had left the city? he said, that because he had slain the prophets of
the foreign gods, and had persuaded the people that he alone whom they
had worshipped from the beginning was God, he was sought for by th