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.”
16. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Are you he that troubles Israel?”
18. And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.
19. Now send word out and gather for me all Israel on Mount Carmel, along with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
20. So Ahab called out all the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel.
21. Elijah came to all the people and said, “How long will you stay between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him, but if Baal, then follow him.”And the people did not say a word.
22. Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal’s prophets number four hundred and fifty men.
23. Therefore, let them give us two bulls, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on some wood, but do not light a fire under it, and I will prepare the other bull, lay it on some wood, and not light a fire underneath it.
24. And you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God that answers by fire, let Him be God.”And all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”