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.
11. And now, you say to me, 'Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here.'
12. And when I will have departed from you, the Spirit of the Lord will transport you to a place that I do not know. And entering, I will report to Ahab. And he, not finding you, will put me to death. Yet your servant has feared the Lord from his infancy.
13. Has it not been revealed to you, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord: how I hid one hundred men from the prophets of the Lord, fifty and fifty, in caves, and how I fed them with bread and water?
14. And now you say: 'Go and tell your lord that Elijah is here,' so that he may kill me!"
15. And Elijah said, "As the Lord of hosts lives, before whose face I stand, this day I will appear to him."
16. Therefore, Obadiah went away to meet Ahab, and he reported to him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.