1 Kin 18:4 for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
1 Kin 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle."
1 Kin 18:6 So they divided the land between them to survey it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1 Kin 18:7 ¶ Now as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him, and he recognized him and fell on his face and said, "Is this you, Elijah my master?"
1 Kin 18:9 He said, "What sin have I committed, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to put me to death?
1 Kin 18:10 "As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my master has not sent to search for you; and when they said, 'He is not here,' he made the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.
1 Kin 18:11 "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here."'
1 Kin 18:12 "It will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the LORD will carry you where I do not know; so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.
1 Kin 18:13 "Has it not been told to my master what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, that I hid a hundred prophets of the LORD by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
1 Kin 18:14 "And now you are saying, 'Go, say to your master, "Behold, Elijah is here"'; he will then kill me."
1 Kin 18:15 Elijah said, "As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today."
1 Kin 18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
1 Kin 18:17 ¶ When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you, you troubler of Israel?"
1 Kin 18:18 He said, "I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the LORD and you have followed the Baals.
1 Kin 18:19 "Now then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table."
1 Kin 18:20 ¶ So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel.
1 Kin 18:21 Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word.
1 Kin 18:22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.
1 Kin 18:23 "Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other ox and lay it on the wood, and I will not put a fire under it.
1 Kin 18:24 "Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people said, "That is a good idea."