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
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me. But I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
13
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14
And now thou sayest, `Go, tell thy lord: "Behold, Elijah is here,"' and he shall slay me!"
15
And Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him today."
16
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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