He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 18:9 in context
1 Kings 18:6–12
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So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
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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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