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 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.
13
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?
14
And now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."
15
And Eli'jah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
16
So Obadi'ah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Eli'jah.
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