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Elijah Meets Obadiah
1 Kings 18:7-16
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As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
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He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
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He said, “Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
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As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.
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Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
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It will happen, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
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Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
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Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”;’ and he will kill me.”
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Elijah said, “As the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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