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 it shall come to pass as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me; but I, thy slave, fear the LORD from my youth.
13
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets in groups of fifty in caves and sustained them with bread and water?
14
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold Elijah; and he shall slay me.
15
And Elijah said unto him, As the LORD of the hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him today.
16
Then Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab came to meet Elijah.