3. Ahab called OBADIAH, who was over the household. (Now OBADIAH feared the LORD greatly;

4. for when Jezebel cut off The LORD's prophets, OBADIAH took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5. Ahab said to OBADIAH, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

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.

7. As OBADIAH was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?"

8. He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!'"

9. He said, "How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

10. As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.

11. Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

12. It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that The LORD's Spirit will carry you I don't know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can't find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.

13. Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed The LORD's prophets, how I hid one hundred men of The LORD's prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

14. Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here".' He will kill me."

15. Elijah said, "As the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."

16. So OBADIAH went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.