nsb - 1Kings:18:1-15

nsb@1Kings:18:1 @ After a long time, the word of Jehovah came to Elijah. In the third year he said: »Go and let Ahab see you. I will send rain on the earth.«

nsb@1Kings:18:2 @ So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. There was no food to be had in Samaria.

nsb@1Kings:18:3 @ Ahab sent for Obadiah, the controller of the king's house. Obadiah had great respect for Jehovah.

nsb@1Kings:18:4 @ When Jezebel massacred the prophets of Jehovah, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and hid them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.

nsb@1Kings:18:5 @ Ahab said to Obadiah: »Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.«

nsb@1Kings:18:6 @ They went through all the country by dividing it between them. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another by himself.

nsb@1Kings:18:7 @ While Obadiah was on his way, he came face to face with Elijah. Seeing who it was, he went down on his face and said: »Is it you, my lord Elijah?«

nsb@1Kings:18:8 @ Elijah answered: »It is I. Go tell your lord Elijah is here.«

nsb@1Kings:18:9 @ He said: »What sin have I done that you are delivering your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill him?

nsb@1Kings:18:10 @ »By the life of Jehovah your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you. When they said: He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

nsb@1Kings:18:11 @ »Now you say: Go, say to your lord Elijah is here.«

nsb@1Kings:18:12 @ »What if the Spirit of Jehovah carries you off to some unknown place as soon as I leave? Then, when I tell Ahab that you are here and he cannot find you, he will put me to death. Remember that I have been a devout worshiper of Jehovah ever since I was a boy.

nsb@1Kings:18:13 @ »Have you not heard that when Jezebel was killing Jehovahs prophets I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?

nsb@1Kings:18:14 @ »So how can you order me to go and tell the king that you are here? He will kill me!«

nsb@1Kings:18:15 @ Elijah said: »By the life of Jehovah of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.«