I. Kines XVIII. 2.

2 And Elijah went to shew_himself unto Ahab, And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called oObadiah, which was the_ovgovernor_of his xhouse. (Now Obadiah -feared !-the Lorp greatly :
4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut_off -the_prophets_of J the Lorn, that Oba- diah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in @ xcave, and -fed them with bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, “:Go into the land, unto all fountains_of x=water, and unto all xbrooks: perad- venture we may-_find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we ‘lose not all the beasts.”
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 And as Obadiah was in the way, be- hold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said,“Art thou that my -lord Elijah?”
8 And he answered him, “£ am: °go, stell thy =lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here,”
9 And he said, “ What -have_I_sinned, that thou +wouldest_deliver thy vant into the_hand_of Ahab, to slay me?
10 4s4the Lorp 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 xnation, that they ‘found thee not.
ll And now thou sayest, ‘+Go, «tell thy =lord, Behold, Elijah is here’
12 And it -shall_come_to_pass, as soon as € am_gone from thee, that the_ Spirit_of Jthe Lorp 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 ser- vant fear ’-the Lorp from my youth.
13 Was it not told my -lord -what I did when Jezebel slew -the_prophets_ of ‘the Lorp, how I hid a hundred tmen_of Jthe Lorp’s prophets by fifty in a xcaye, and fed them with bread and water ?
14 And now thou sayest, ‘Go, -tell thy =lord, Behold, Elijah zs here :’ and he shall_slay me.”
15 And Elijah said, “As J the Lorn of_ hosts liveth, before whom [I :stand, I will_surely_shew_myself unto him to- day.”
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
7 And it came_to_pass, when Ahab saw -Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
~ |“Art thou ‘he +that_troubleth Israel?”
18 And he answered, “I shaye_not troubled -Israél; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye -have_forsaken -the_commandments_of! the Lorp, and thou hast_followed xBaalim.
19 Now therefore :send, and -gather to me all Israél unto Mount ¢ xCarmel, and -the_prophets_of xBaal four hun- dred and fifty, and the_prophets_of the groves four hundred, +which_eat at Jezebel’s table.”