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And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?
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By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.
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And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.
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And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.
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Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?
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And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.
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And Elijah said, By the life of the Lord of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.
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So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.
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And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?
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Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.
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Now send, and get Israel together before me at Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal who get their food at Jezebel's table.