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1 Kings 18:7-16
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7 As Obadiah was traveling along, Elijah met him.[a] When he recognized him, he fell facedown to the ground and said, “Is it really you, my master, Elijah?” 8 He replied, “Yes,[b] go and say to your master, ‘Elijah is back.’”[c] 9 Obadiah[d] said, “What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?[e] 10 As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them[f] swear an oath that they could not find you. 11 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’[g] 12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s Spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you.[h] If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.[i] That would not be fair,[j] because your servant has been a loyal follower of[k] the Lord from my youth. 13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did[l] when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid 100 of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water. 14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’[m] but he will kill me.” 15 But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord of Heaven’s Armies[n] lives (whom I serve),[o] I will make an appearance before him today.”

Elijah Confronts Baal’s Prophets

16 When Obadiah went and informed Ahab, the king went to meet Elijah.[p]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:7 tn Heb “look, Elijah [came] to meet him.”
  2. 1 Kings 18:8 tn Heb “[It is] I.”
  3. 1 Kings 18:8 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
  4. 1 Kings 18:9 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Obadiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  5. 1 Kings 18:9 tn Heb “to kill me.”
  6. 1 Kings 18:10 tn Heb “he makes the kingdom or the nation swear an oath.”
  7. 1 Kings 18:11 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
  8. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
  9. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
  10. 1 Kings 18:12 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
  11. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).
  12. 1 Kings 18:13 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”
  13. 1 Kings 18:14 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
  14. 1 Kings 18:15 tn Traditionally, “the Lord of Hosts.”
  15. 1 Kings 18:15 tn Heb “(before whom I stand).”
  16. 1 Kings 18:16 tn Heb “Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah.”
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