8. And he answered him, “It is I. Go, say to your master, ‘Ěliyahu is here.’ ”
9. And he said, “What have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Aḥaḇ, to kill me?
10. “As יהוה your Elohim lives, there is no nation or reign where my master has not sent to look for you. And when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the reign or nation swear that they could not find you.
11. “And now you say, ‘Go, say to your master, “Ěliyahu is here” ’!
12. “And it shall be, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of יהוה takes you away to a place I do not know. And I shall come to report to Aḥaḇ, and when he does not find you, he shall kill me. But I your servant have feared יהוה from my youth.
13. “Was it not reported to my master what I did when Izeḇel slew the prophets of יהוה, how I hid one hundred men of the prophets of יהוה, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?