1 Kings 18:3-16 ▼

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.’”

9 And he said, “How have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

10 As YHWH your God lives, there is neither nation nor kingdom where my master has not sent to hunt for you. And they said, ‘He is not here.’ And from the kingdom or the nation he took an oath that they could not find you.

11 And you say, ‘Go, tell your master: Behold, Elijah!’

12 And it shall come to pass when I am gone from you, that the Spirit of YHWH will carry you to a place that I know not. And when I go and tell Ahab, and he does not find you, he will kill me. And I your servant have feared YHWH from my youth.

13 Was it not reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of YHWH, that I hid of the prophets of YHWH, a hundred men, fifty by fifty in the cave, and I sustained them with bread and water?

14 And you say, ‘Go, tell your master: Behold, Elijah.’ And He will kill me!”

15 And Elijah said, “As YHWH of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely today present myself to him.”

16 And Obadiah went to meet Ahab and reported to him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.