1 Kings 18:11

11 Now you [are] saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah [is] here." '

1 Kings 18:11 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:11

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.

1 Kings 18:11 In-Context

9 He said, "How have I sinned that you [are] giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me?

10 {As Yahweh your God lives}, surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. [If] they would say, 'He is not here,' then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you.

11 Now you [are] saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah [is] here." '

12 And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, [even though] your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth.

13 Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh? I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Yahweh {by fifties} in the cave, and I sustained them [with] food and water.