10. As surely as the Lord your God lives, the king has sent people to every country to search for you. If the ruler said you were not there, Ahab forced the ruler to swear you could not be found in his country.
11. Now you want me to go to my master and tell him, ‘Elijah is here’?
12. The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesn’t find you, he will kill me! I have followed the Lord since I was a boy.
13. Haven’t you been told what I did? When Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets, I hid a hundred of them, fifty in one cave and fifty in another. I brought them food and water.
14. Now you want me to go and tell my master you are here? He will kill me!”
15. Elijah answered, “As surely as the Lord All-Powerful lives, whom I serve, I will be seen by Ahab today.”
16. So Obadiah went to Ahab and told him where Elijah was. Then Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17. When he saw Elijah, he asked, “Is it you—the biggest troublemaker in Israel?”
18. Elijah answered, “I have not made trouble in Israel. You and your father’s family have made all this trouble by not obeying the Lord’s commands. You have gone after the Baals.