As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 18:10 in context
1 Kings 18:7–13
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As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
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He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
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He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
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As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
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Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’
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It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that the LORD’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
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Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the LORD’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
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