Amplified Bible

1 Kings 18:11-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)

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

12. And as soon as I have gone out from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant have feared and revered the Lord from my youth.

13. Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

14. And now you say, Go tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will kill me.

15. Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts lives, before Whom I stand, I will surely show myself to Ahab today.

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

17. When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Are you he who troubles Israel?

18. Elijah replied, I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, by forsaking the commandments of the Lord and by following the Baals.

19. Therefore send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of [the goddess] Asherah, who eat at [Queen] Jezebel's table.

20. So Ahab sent to all the Israelites and assembled the prophets at Mount Carmel.