Nine centuries B.C.E., God commanded the prophet Elijah to leave Israel, who had fallen into the power of the ungodly kings. His path led him to Phoenicia, to the city of Sarepta, besieged by the Assyrians. There he would lose everything, especially that which he loved. And he would revolt against God. Why evil, tragedy, suffering? To this eternal question of humanity, an angel would give the answer. Elijah would then be able to return to his country and lead the fight against Ahab and Jezabel, worshipers of the god Baal. Based on fragments of the Bible, Paulo Coelho developed here the themes that had earned the Alchemist, On the edge of the Piedra River, I sat down and wept and the Pilgrim of Compostela a worldwide success: the meaning that each must give to his life, the perseverance with which he must follow his Personal Legend, the need to understand that tragedy is not a punishment, but a challenge to be met.