And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Ver. 8. And he arose, and did eat and drink.] Let us do the like at the Lord's supper, where to be a holy glutton is a great virtue.
Forty days and forty nights.] So long fasted Moses, Elias, and Christ; which three great fathers met afterwards gloriously in mount Tabor.
Unto Horeb the mount of God.] To this mount from Beersheba is reckoned fourscore miles; so that the prophet needed not to have been so long in going thither; but for safety's sake, he might haply make many turnings, and fetch many bouts, through pathless places, to shun the pursuers; and whether he at first intended to go to Horeb, who can tell?