12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.
13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jez´ebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Eli´jah is here: and he shall slay me.
15 And Eli´jah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him today.
16 So Obadi´ah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Eli´jah.
17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Eli´jah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Ba´alim.