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1 Kings 18:4-13

4for 1when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and 2provided them with bread and water.) 5Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the river valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle.” 6So they divided the land between them to 3survey it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, 4and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, Elijah my master?” 8And he said to him, “It is I. Go, say to your master, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’” 9But he said, “What 5sin have I committed, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab, to put me to death? 106As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my master has not sent word to search for you; and whenever they say, ‘He is not here,’ he makes the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you. 11Yet now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here!”’ 12And it will come about when I leave you 7that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to where I do not know; so when I come and inform Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, though I, your servant, have 8feared the Lord from my youth. 139Has it not been reported to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred 10prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Kings 18:4 1 Kin 18:13 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Kings 18:4 Matt 10:40-42 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Kings 18:6 Lit pass through ↩
  4. 4. 1 Kings 18:7 2 Kin 1:6-8 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Kings 18:9 Lit have I sinned ↩
  6. 6. 1 Kings 18:10 1 Kin 17:1 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Kings 18:12 2 Kin 2:16; Ezek 3:12, 14; Acts 8:39 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Kings 18:12 Or revered ↩
  9. 9. 1 Kings 18:13 1 Kin 18:4 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Kings 18:13 Lit men of the prophets ↩

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