1 Kings 18:9

9 He said, "How have I sinned that you [are] giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?

1 Kings 18:9 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:9

And he said, what have I sinned
Or in what have I offended God or his prophet, that revenge should be taken on me in this way: that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay
me?
for that he supposed would be the consequence of it, as he argues and more plainly expresses his sense in the following words.

1 Kings 18:9 In-Context

7 It happened that Obadiah [was] on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, "[Is] this you, my lord Elijah?"

8 He said to him, "I [am]. Go, say to your lord, 'Elijah [is] here.'"

9 He said, "How have I sinned that you [are] giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?

10 {As Yahweh your God lives}, surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. [If] they would say, 'He is not here,' then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you.

11 Now you [are] saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah [is] here." '