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Elijah Meets Obadiah
1 Kings 18:7-16
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'Ovadyah was on the road when suddenly Eliyahu encountered him. 'Ovadyah recognized him, fell on his face and said, "Is it really you, my lord Eliyahu?"
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He answered, "Yes, it is I; go, tell your master, 'Eliyahu is here.'"
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'Ovadyah replied, "How have I sinned, that you would hand your servant over to Ach'av to kill me?
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As ADONAI your God lives, there can't be a single nation or kingdom where my master hasn't sent to search you out; and in each kingdom or nation where they said, 'He isn't here,' he made them take an oath that they hadn't found you.
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Now you say, 'Go tell your master, "Eliyahu is here."'
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But as soon as I leave you, the Spirit of ADONAI will carry you off to I don't know where; so that when I come and tell Ach'av, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have revered ADONAI from my youth -
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wasn't my lord told what I did when Izevel killed ADONAI's prophets, how I hid a hundred of ADONAI's prophets by fifties in caves and supplied their food and water?
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Now you say, 'Go tell your master, "Look, Eliyahu is here."' Why, he'll kill me!"
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Eliyahu said, "As ADONAI-Tzva'ot lives, before whom I stand, I will present myself to him today."
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So 'Ovadyah went, found Ach'av and told him; and Ach'av went to meet Eliyahu.
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