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 happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
13
Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14
Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]; and he will kill me.
15
Elijah said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.
16
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.