Elijah Confronts Ahab and Prepares for Confrontation
1 Kings 18:1-15
1And it came to pass after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will give rain upon the face of the land."2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. And the famine was strong in Samaria.3Ahab called to Obadiah, who was over the house. Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly.4And it came to pass, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water.5Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis; perhaps we may find grass and keep the horse and the mule alive, and we shall not cut off any of the animals.6They divided the land to pass through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.7And it came to pass that Obadiah was on the way, and behold, Elijah met him. And he recognized him and fell on his face and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?8He said to him, It is I. Go, tell your master, Behold, Elijah.9Obadiah said, What sin have I committed that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?10As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they said, He is not there, he made that kingdom and that nation swear that they could not find you.11And now you say, Go, tell your master, Behold, Elijah.12And it will be that as soon as I leave you, the spirit of the LORD will carry you to a place I do not know. Then I will come and tell Ahab, but he will not find you and will kill me. Yet your servant has feared the LORD from my youth.13Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD—how I hid a hundred men of the LORD's prophets, fifty by fifty, in a cave and sustained them with bread and water?14And now you say, Go, tell your master, Behold, Elijah—and he will kill me.15Elijah said, As the LORD of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely present myself to him today.