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.
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1 Kings 18:14 In-Context
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And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.
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Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?
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And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me. ”
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And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today. ”
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.