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And now you are telling me to go to my master Ahab. You want me to say to him, 'Elijah is here.' He'll kill me!"
1 Kings 18:14 Meaning and Commentary
1 Kings 18:14
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
I don’t know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the LORD since my youth.
13
Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD? I hid a hundred of the LORD’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.
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And now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ He will kill me!”
15
Elijah said, “As the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.”
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.