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1 KINGS 18:1

And it came to pass [after] many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. ...

1 KINGS 18:2

And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And [there was] a sore famine in Samaria. ...

1 KINGS 18:3

And Ahab called Obadiah, which [was] the governor of [his] house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: ...

1 KINGS 18:4

For it was [so], when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) ...

1 KINGS 18:5

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. ...

1 KINGS 18:6

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. ...

1 KINGS 18:7

# And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah? ...

1 KINGS 18:8

And he answered him, I [am]: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]. ...

1 KINGS 18:9

And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? ...

1 KINGS 18:10

[As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. ...

1 KINGS 18:11

And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah [is here]. ...

1 KINGS 18:12

And it shall come to pass, [as soon as] I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and [so] when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. ...