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11 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’[a] 12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s Spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you.[b] If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me.[c] That would not be fair,[d] because your servant has been a loyal follower of[e] the Lord from my youth. 13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did[f] when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid 100 of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:11 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”
  2. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”
  3. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”
  4. 1 Kings 18:12 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.
  5. 1 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).
  6. 1 Kings 18:13 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”

11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ 12 I don’t know where the Spirit(A) of the Lord may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the Lord since my youth. 13 Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord? I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.

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