1 Kings 19:5 (LSB)

Passage

Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”

Nearby Context

1 Kings 19:3 And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there.

1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down and slept under a broom tree; and behold, there was an angel touching him, and he said to him, “Arise, eat.”

1 Kings 19:6 Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

1 Kings 19:7 And the angel of Yahweh came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "down", "slept", "under", "broom", "tree", "behold", "angel", and "touching". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "down" and "slept", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 4's "But he himself went a day s..." into verse 6's "Then he looked and behold there was...", so "down" and "slept" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "down" and "slept" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.