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1 Kings 18:14 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.” "
1 Kings 18:14
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12 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.
13 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?
14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”
15 Elijah said, “As the LORD of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
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1 Kings 18:1
"After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”"
1 Kings 18:2
"Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria."
1 Kings 18:3
"Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;"
1 Kings 18:4
"for when Jezebel cut off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)"
1 Kings 18:5
"Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”"
1 Kings 18:6
"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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