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1 Kings 18
⁷ Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is this you, Elijah my master?"
⁸ He said to him, "It is I. Go, say to your master, ’Behold, Elijah is here.’"
⁹ He said, "What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?
¹⁰ As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent to search for you; and when they said, ’He is not here,’ he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.
¹¹ And now you are saying, ’Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."’
¹² It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.
¹³ Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
¹⁴ And now you are saying, ’Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"’; he will then kill me."
¹⁵ Elijah said, "As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
¹⁶ So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
¹⁷ When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?"