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?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 18:13 in context
1 Kings 18:10–16
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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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Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
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Elijah said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
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So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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