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  • A. 1-3 Jezebel's threat; Elijah flees to Beersheba and left his servant there
  • B. 4-8 Elijah's journey into the wilderness, fasting, divine provision, forty-day journey to Horeb
  • C. 9-10 Elijah enters a cave; God asks What doest thou here, Elijah?; Elijah's complaint about Israel's apostasy
  • D. 11-12 Central pivot - God's manifestations: wind, earthquake, fire, then still small voice
  • C'. 13-14 Elijah exits the cave; God repeats What doest thou here, Elijah?; identical complaint repeated
  • B'. 15-18 God commands Elijah to return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; commissioning three successors
  • A'. 19-21 Elijah finds Elisha; Elisha leaves his oxen and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him