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.
9
And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me?
10
[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation nor kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
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And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here].
12
And it will come to pass, [as soon as] I have gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
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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?