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Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron.
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Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly:
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for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
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Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
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So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah went another way by himself.
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As `Ovadyah was in the way, behold, Eliyah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Eliyah?
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He answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here].
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He said, Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ach'av, to kill me?
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As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.
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Now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliyah [is here].
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It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.