11. And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."'
12. It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you where I do not know; 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 to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, that I hid a hundred prophets of the Lord by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
14. And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."
15. 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 this you, you troubler of Israel?"
18. He said, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.
19. Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
20. So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.
21. Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.
22. Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.
23. Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it.