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 sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?
10
By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.
11
And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.
12
And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.
13
Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?
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