OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 19:7

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

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Verse 7. Go. Hebrew “the journey is too great for thee,” without this support. Bible.—He spent forty days in this journey, as he did not follow the straitest road. Horeb is only about fifty leagues from Bersabee. Calmet.—He might have travelled thither in four or five days. Menochius.

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