Kings III 18:4-18

⁴And it came to pass when Jezabel struck the prophets of the Lord, that Abdiu took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.

⁵And Achaab said to Abdiu, Come, and let us go through the land, and to the fountains of water, and to the brooks, if by any means we may find grass, and may save the horses and mules, and so they will not perish from the tents.

⁶And they made a division of the way between them to pass through it: Achaab went one way, and Abdiu went by another way alone.

⁷And Abdiu was alone in the way; and Eliu came alone to meet him: and Abdiu hasted, and fell upon his face, and said, My lord Eliu, are you indeed he?

⁸And Eliu said to him, I am: go say to your master, Behold, Eliu is here.

⁹And Abdiu said, What sin have I committed, that you give your servant into the hand of Achaab to kill me?

¹⁰As the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom, whither my lord has not sent to seek you; and if they said, He is not here, then has he set fire to the kingdom and its territories, because he has not found you.

¹¹And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Eliu is here.

¹²And it shall come to pass when I shall have departed from you, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry you to a land which I know not, and I shall go in to tell the matter to Achaab, and he will not find you and will kill me: yet your servant fears the Lord from his youth.

¹³Has it not been told to you my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

¹⁴And now you say to me, Go, say to your master, Behold, Eliu is here: and he shall kill me.

¹⁵And Eliu said, As the Lord of Hosts before whom I stand lives, today I will appear before him.

¹⁶And Abdiu went to meet Achaab, and told him: and Achaab hasted forth, and went to meet Eliu.

¹⁷And it came to pass when Achaab saw Eliu, that Achaab said to Eliu, Are you he that perverts Israel?

¹⁸And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is you and your father's house, in that you° forsake the Lord your God, and you have gone after Baalim.