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.
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And he said, What have I sinned, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?
10
As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and when they said, He is not [here], he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that they found thee not.
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And now thou sayest, Go, say to thy lord, Behold Elijah!
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And it shall come to pass when I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah shall carry thee whither I know not; and when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will kill me; and I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.
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Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water?