9. And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
10. As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.
11. And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
12. And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the Lord will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the Lord from my youth.
13. Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed 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. And Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him 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, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”
18. And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.