1 Kings 18:1-8 ▼

1 And after many days it came to pass that the word of YHWH came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

2 And Elijah went to appear to Ahab. And the famine was severe in Samaria.

3 And Ahab called to Obadiah, who was over the house. (And Obadiah was one who feared YHWH greatly,

4 for it was in Jezebel cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men to a cave, and he sustained them with bread and water.)

5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all the springs of the waters and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and keep alive the horses and mules, so that we will not have to cut off any livestock.”

6 And they divided between them the land to explore it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went one way by himself.

7 And Obadiah was on the way, and behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Are you this one—my lord Elijah?”

8 And he answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your master, ‘Behold, Elijah.’”