1Ki 19:1
19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal
     how he had slain all the {a} prophets with the sword.

     (a) That is, of Baal.

1Ki 19:2
19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, {b} So
     let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy
     life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this
     time.

     (b) Though the wicked rage against God's children, yet he
         holds them back so they cannot execute their malice.

1Ki 19:4
19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,
     and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he
     requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is
     enough; now, O LORD, {c} take away my life; for I [am] not
     better than my fathers.

     (c) It is so hard to control our impatience in affliction,
         that the saints could not overcome the same.

1Ki 19:7
19:7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and
     touched him, and said, Arise [and] eat; because {d} the
     journey [is] too great for thee.

     (d) He declares that unless God had nourished him
         miraculously it would have been impossible for him to
         have gone on this journey.

1Ki 19:10
19:10 And he said, I have {e} been very jealous for the LORD God
      of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy
      covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets
      with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left; and they
      seek my life, to take it away.

      (e) He complains that the more zealous he was to maintain
          God's glory, the more cruelly he was persecuted.

1Ki 19:11
19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
      LORD.  And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
      strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the
      rocks before the LORD; [but] the LORD [was] {f} not in the
      wind: and after the wind an earthquake; [but] the LORD
      [was] not in the earthquake:

      (f) For the nature of man is not able to come near God, if
          he appeared in his strength and full majesty, and
          therefore he mercifully submits himself to our
          limitations.

1Ki 19:14
19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of
      hosts: {g} because the children of Israel have forsaken
      thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy
      prophets with the sword; and I, [even] I only, am left;
      and they seek my life, to take it away.

      (g) So should not depend on the multitude in maintaining
          God's glory, but because our duty requires us to do
          it.

1Ki 19:18
19:18 Yet I have left [me] seven thousand in Israel, {h} all the
      knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth
      which hath not kissed him.

      (h) He declares that wicked deceivers and idolaters are
          not his.

1Ki 19:20
19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, {i}
      Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and
      [then] I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back
      again: for what have I done to thee?

      (i) Though this natural affection is not to be contemned,
          yet it should not move us when God calls us to serve
          him.

1Ki 19:21
19:21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen,
      and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the {k}
      instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and
      they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and
      ministered unto him.

      (k) He would not stay till wood was brought, so great was
          his desire to follow his calling.