1Kings:18:1-15

rsv@1Kings:18:1 @ After many days the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."

rsv@1Kings:18:2 @ So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:18:3 @ And Ahab called Obadi'ah, who was over the household. (Now Obadi'ah revered the LORD greatly;

rsv@1Kings:18:4 @ and when Jez'ebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadi'ah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

rsv@1Kings:18:5 @ And Ahab said to Obadi'ah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals."

rsv@1Kings:18:6 @ So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadi'ah went in another direction by himself.

rsv@1Kings:18:7 @ And as Obadi'ah was on the way, behold, Eli'jah met him; and Obadi'ah recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Eli'jah?"

rsv@1Kings:18:8 @ And he answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, `Behold, Eli'jah is here.'"

rsv@1Kings:18:9 @ And he said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

rsv@1Kings:18:10 @ As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they would say, `He is not here,' he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.

rsv@1Kings:18:11 @ And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here."'

rsv@1Kings:18:12 @ And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you whither I know not; and so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have revered the LORD from my youth.

rsv@1Kings:18:13 @ Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jez'ebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

rsv@1Kings:18:14 @ And now you say, `Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Eli'jah is here"'; and he will kill me."

rsv@1Kings:18:15 @ And Eli'jah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

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