5. And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all the springs of water and to all the brooks. Perhaps we will find grass to save the horses and mules, so that we do not lose all the beasts.”
6. So they divided the land between them to search throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7. As Obadiah was going along, he met Elijah, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is that you, my lord Elijah?”
8. And he answered him, “I am. Go, tell your lord, ‘Elijah is here.’ ”
9. He said, “What evil have I done that you would hand your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?
10. As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not looked for you, and when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the kingdom and nation swear that they could not find you,
11. and now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Elijah is here!” ’
12. As soon as I am gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to a place I do not know, and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will execute me. But I, your servant, have feared the Lord since my youth.
13. Were you not told what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord’s prophets in groups of fifty in a cave and fed them with bread and water?
14. And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Elijah is here,” ’ and he will execute me.”
15. Elijah said, “As the Lord of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”