Raja Ahab dan Izebel akan membunuh Elia sehingga Elia melarikan diri ke padang gurun. Dalam perjalanan ia datang ke gua di mana ia bermalam. Tuhan berbicara dengan Elia di gua.
8 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.9 There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
