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As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they would say, 'He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
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And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here."'
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And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you whither I know not; and so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the LORD from my youth.
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Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jez'ebel 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, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."
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And Eli'jah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
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So Obadi'ah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Eli'jah.
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When Ahab saw Eli'jah, Ahab said to him, "Is it you, you troubler of Israel?"
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And he answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you have, and your father's house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and followed the Ba'als.
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Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Ba'al and the four hundred prophets of Ashe'rah, who eat at Jez'ebel's table."
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So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel, and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.