1. After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go and show yourself to Ahab, so that I may grant rain upon the face of the earth."
2. Therefore, Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. For there was a severe famine in Samaria.
3. And Ahab called Obadiah, the manager of his household. Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly.
4. For when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord, he took one hundred prophets, and concealed them, fifty and fifty, in caves. And he fed them with bread and water.
5. Then Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all the valleys, for perhaps we will be able to find plants, and save the horses and mules, so that the beasts of burden may not perish entirely."
6. And they divided the regions among themselves, so that they might travel through them. Ahab went one way alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7. And while Obadiah was on the way, Elijah met him. And when he had recognized him, he fell on his face, and he said, "Are you not my lord Elijah?"
8. And he responded to him: "I am. Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here."
9. And he said: "How have I sinned that you would deliver me, your servant, into the hand of Ahab, so that he would put me to death?
10. As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my lord has not sent, seeking you. And when all responded, 'He is not here,' he swore each kingdom and nation to an oath, because you were not found at all.