1 Kings 19:7 (WEB)

Passage

Yahweh’s angel came again the second time, and touched him, and said, “Arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.”

Nearby Context

1 Kings 19:5 He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat!”

1 Kings 19:6 He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.

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

1 Kings 19:8 He arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, God’s Mountain.

1 Kings 19:9 He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "angel", "came", "again", "second", "time", "touched", and "said". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "angel", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "He looked and behold there was at..." into verse 8's "He arose and ate and drank and...", so "yahweh" and "angel" 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 "yahweh" and "angel" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.