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 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?
14
And now you say, Go and say to your Lord, Elijah is here; and he will put me to death.
15
And Elijah said, By the life of the Lord of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.
16
So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.
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