Kings III 18:5-21

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, art thou indeed he?

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

⁹And Abdiu said, What sin have I committed, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Achaab 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, Eliu 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 Achaab, 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 Jezabel 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, Eliu is here: and he shall slay me.

¹⁵And Eliu said, As the Lord of Hosts before whom I stand lives, to-day 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, Art thou he that perverts Israel?

¹⁸And Eliu 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.

¹⁹And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of shame four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, that eat at Jezabel's table.

²⁰And Achaab sent to all Israel, and gathered all the prophets to mount Carmel.

²¹And Eliu drew near to them all: and Eliu said to them, How long wilt ye halt on both feet? if the Lord be God, follow him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.