11. And now thou sayest to me: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here.
12. And when I am gone from thee, the spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab, and he not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.
13. Hath it not been told thee, my lord, what I did when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of the Lord, by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water?
14. And now thou sayest: Go, and tell thy master: Elias is here: that he may kill me.
15. And Elias said: As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whose face I stand, this day I will shew myself unto him.
16. Abdias therefore went to meet Achab, and told him: and Achab came to meet Elias.
17. And when he had seen him, he said: Art thou he that troublest Israel?
18. And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.