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And Obadiah was in the highway; and behold, Elijah came to meet him. And he recognized him, and he fell on his face, and said, Are you this one, my lord Elijah?

And he said to him, I am ; Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah!

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

As Jehovah your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you; and when they said, He is not here, then he caused the kingdom and the nation to swear that it did not find you.

And now, you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah.

And it shall be, I will go away from you, and the Spirit of Jehovah will lift you up, where I do not know, and I will come to tell Ahab, and he will not find you, and he will kill me. And your servant has feared Jehovah from my youth.

Was it not told to my lord that which I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Jehovah, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets, fifty by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

And now you are saying, Go, say to your lord, Behold, Elijah, and he will kill me!

And Elijah said, As Jehovah of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely today I will be seen by him.

And Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.