And now thou sayest, go tell my lord, behold, Elijah [is here]: and he shall slay me. ] That is, should he carry such a message to him, and Elijah should be removed elsewhere, and not to be found.
12
"It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.
13
"Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD , that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
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"And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."
15
Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.