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 when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.
13
Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord; how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?
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And now thou sayest: Go and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
15
And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
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Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.