Obadiah fears Ahab

9Obadiah said, “What sin have I committed that you are handing your servant over to Ahab so he can put me to death?

10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent men to search for you. Whenever they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.

11And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, “Elijah is here.”’

12When I leave you, the Spirit of Yahweh may carry you off to a place I do not know. If I then report to Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me—even though your servant has feared Yahweh since my youth.

13Have you not heard, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of Yahweh—how I hid a hundred of the prophets of Yahweh, fifty men in each cave, and provided them with bread and water?

14And now you say, ‘Go and tell your master, “Elijah is here”’—and he will kill me!”