What is "a broom tree"? (1 Kings 19:4)
HCSB but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”
1 Kings 19:4
ESV - 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
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Asked April 26 2020
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Jack Gutknecht
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Jorain Sintjago
God revealed to me:
The broom tree is a place of suffering. It also becomes an anguished cry for help.
Also most are single mothers who are weary of watching their children suffer. Feeling beaten down and abandoned, they are unemployed, uneducated, and seemingly without any opportunity for a better life. Their children are malnourished and hunger and poverty are constant companions.
The good news is that God met with Elijah at the broom tree. He revealed himself to Moses in a thorny acacia. He also heard Ishmael's cries from beneath the bush and directed his mother to a well in the desert.
In the desert, water is invisible. It lies hidden beneath the surface and is often too deep to reach on our own. But water is there and the roots of a broom tree prove its existence. In the same way, hope can be discovered even in the deepest moments of human suffering.
This information I found on https://fivetalents.org/blog/2017/8/21/beneath-the-broom-tree-discovering-hope-in-the-deepest-moments-of-suffering