Kings III 18:4-18

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

⁵And Ahab said to Obadiah, 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: Ahab went one way, and Obadiah went by another way alone.

⁷And Obadiah was alone in the way; and Elijah came alone to meet him: and Obadiah hastened, and fell upon his face, and said, My lord Elijah, art thou indeed he?

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

⁹And Obadiah said, What sin have I committed, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me?

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

¹¹And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

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

¹³Has it not been told to thee my lord, what I did when Jezebel slew 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 thou sayest to me, Go, say to thy master, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

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

¹⁶And Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab hastened forth, and went to meet Elijah.

¹⁷And it came to pass when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to Elijah, Art thou he that perverts Israel?

¹⁸And Elijah said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is thou and thy father’s house, in that ye forsake the Lord your God, and thou hast gone after Baalim.