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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Obadiah answered, "What have I done that you want to put me in danger of being killed by King Ahab?
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By the living Lord, your God, I swear that the king has made a search for you in every country in the world. Whenever the ruler of a country reported that you were not in his country, Ahab would require that ruler to swear that you could not be found.
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And now you want me to go and tell him that you are here?
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What if the spirit of the Lord carries you off to some unknown place as soon as I leave? Then, when I tell Ahab that you are here and he can't find you, he will put me to death. Remember that I have been a devout worshiper of the Lord ever since I was a boy.
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Haven't you heard that when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.