Older commentators generally understood this to mean that Elijah had no other food at all, and they compared this long fast with that of Moses and …

Forty days and forty nights. — Unless this time includes, as some have supposed, the whole journey to and from Horeb and the sojou…

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, th…

And he arose, and did eat and drink
Of what was left of the cake and cruse of water, before provided for him: