1st Kings Chapter 19 verse 5 Holy Bible
And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
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And stretching himself on the earth, he went to sleep under the broom-plant; but an angel, touching him, said to him, Get up and have some food.
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And he lay down and slept under the broom-bush. And behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise, eat!
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And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.
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And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
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He lay down and slept under a juniper tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.
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And he lieth down and sleepeth under a certain retem-tree, and lo, a messenger cometh against him, and saith to him, `Rise, eat;'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - And as he lay and slept ["While death was called for, the cousin of death comes unbidden" (Hall)] under a [Heb. one] Juniper tree, behold, then [Heb. זֶה this; "behold here," siehe da, Gesen.], an angel [Heb. messenger; the same word as in ver. 2, but explained in ver. 7 to be a messenger of God. Cf. Genesis 16:9; Genesis 21:17] touched [Heb. touching] him and said unto him, Arise and eat. [Probably he had eaten little or nothing since leaving Jezreel. Food was now what he most needed. This circumstance suggests that the profound depression betrayed in his prayer (ver. 4) was largely the result of physical weakness.]
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5)An angel touched him.--The word may signify simply "a messenger," human or super-human; but the context suggests a miraculous ministration of some unearthly food. It is notable that, except as ministers of God in the physical sphere (as in 2Samuel 24:16-17; 2Kings 19:35), the angels, whose appearances are so often recorded in earlier days, hardly appear during the prophetic period, as though the place of their spiritual ministry, as messengers of God, to the people had been supplied by the prophetic mission. Here, and in 2Kings 6:17, the angel is but auxiliary to the prophet, simply ministering to him in time of danger and distress, as the angel of the Agony to the Prophet of prophets.