1. It happened many days later that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab so that I may give rain on the surface of the earth.”
2. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
3. Ahab summoned Obadiah who was over the house. (Now Obadiah was fearing Yahweh greatly.
4. It had happened that when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in the cave and sustained them with food and water.)
5. Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals.”
6. So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7. It happened that Obadiah was on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, “Is this you, my lord Elijah?”
8. He said to him, “I am. Go, say to your lord, ‘Elijah is here.’ ”