1. And the days are many, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Elijah in the third year, saying, `Go, appear unto Ahab, and I give rain on the face of the ground;'
2. and Elijah goeth to appear unto Ahab. And the famine is severe in Samaria,
3. and Ahab calleth unto Obadiah, who [is] over the house--and Obadiah hath been fearing Jehovah greatly,
4. and it cometh to pass, in Jezebel's cutting off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah taketh a hundred prophets, and hideth them, fifty men in a cave, and hath sustained them with bread and water--
5. and Ahab saith unto Obadiah, `Go through the land, unto all fountains of waters, and unto all the brooks, if so be we find hay, and keep alive horse and mule, and do not cut off any of the cattle.'
6. And they apportion to themselves the land, to pass over into it; Ahab hath gone in one way by himself, and Obadiah hath gone in another way by himself;
7. and Obadiah [is] in the way, and lo, Elijah--to meet him; and he discerneth him, and falleth on his face, and saith, `Art thou he--my lord Elijah?'
8. And he saith to him, `I [am]; go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah.'