10. As the Lord thy God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek thee; and when they all said, He is not here; he has caused kingdoms and nations to swear an oath if they have found thee or not.
11. And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold Elijah.
12. And it shall come to pass as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me; but I, thy slave, fear the Lord from my youth.
13. Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid one hundred men of the Lord’s prophets in groups of fifty in caves and sustained them with bread and water?
14. And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold Elijah; and he shall slay me.
15. And Elijah said unto him, As the Lord of the hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him today.
16. Then Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab came to meet Elijah.
17. And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubles Israel?
18. And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
19. Now therefore send and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel, and the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of the groves, who eat at Jezebel’s table.
20. Then Ahab sent unto all the sons of Israel and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel.
21. And Elijah came near unto all the people and said, How long shall ye halt between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.
22. Then Elijah spoke again unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23. Give us, therefore, two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on wood and put no fire under it; and I will dress the other bullock and lay it on wood and put no fire under it.