1 Kings 18:11

11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’

1 Kings 18:11 in Other Translations

11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

11 And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

11 And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, “Elijah is here.”’

11 And now you're telling me, 'Go and tell your master Elijah's found!'

11 "Now you say, 'Go tell your lord, "Elijah is here!" '

1 Kings 18:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:11

And now thou sayest, go tell thy lord, behold, Elijah is
here.
] Which, if I should not be able to make good, would be of fatal consequence to me; and that it is plain he feared, by what he next says.

1 Kings 18:11 In-Context

9 “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?

10 As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.

11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’

12 I don’t know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the LORD since my youth.

13 Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.