authority and authenticity: “I have been furiously zealous for Yahweh, God of Hosts.” Any prophet who sees things going badly in his ministry and as a result wants to abandon it and perhaps surrender his very life must assuredly have forgotten from whom his real strength comes. Because Yahweh still has work for Elijah to do, he gives him heavenly food for the long trek to Horeb, and there he reimpowers him to mighty deeds by showing him that he is present not only in the “earthquake” and “fires”