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18And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
²And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
³And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
⁴For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
⁵And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
⁶So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
⁷And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
⁸And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
⁹And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
¹⁰As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
¹¹And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
¹²And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.
¹³Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
¹⁴And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
¹⁵And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
¹⁶So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.