11. Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’
12. But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. That would not be fair, because your servant has been a loyal follower of the Lord from my youth.
13. Certainly my master is aware of what I did when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred 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,”’ but he will kill me.”
15. But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today.”
16. When Obadiah went and informed Ahab, the king went to meet Elijah.
17. When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”