The still small voice 1KI 19:12
The day after the greatest victory of his life, Elijah runs for forty days to the mountain where the law was given and asks to die. He is fed twice by an angel before he gets there. At Horeb a great wind tears the rocks, then an earthquake, then a fire, and the Lord is in none of them. Afterwards comes a sound of thin silence, and that is where the voice is. The question it asks is simply: what are you doing here.
The passage
1KI 19:12 · Read the passage10And he said, I have 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.
11And 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} not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; {but} the LORD {was} not in the earthquake:
12And after the earthquake a fire; {but} the LORD {was} not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13And it was {so}, when Elijah heard {it}, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, {there came} a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
14And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: 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.
15And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael {to be} king over Syria:
16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint {to be} king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint {to be} prophet in thy room. {Elisha: Gr. Eliseus}
