1 Kings 18:9-13
1 Kings 18:9
But he said, “What sin have I committed, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab, to put me to death?
1 Kings 18:10
As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my master has not sent word to search for you; and whenever they say, ‘He is not here,’ he makes the kingdom or nation swear that they could not find you.
1 Kings 18:11
Yet now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here!” ’
1 Kings 18:12
And it will come about when I leave you that the Spirit of the Lord will carry you to where I do not know; so when I come and inform Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, though I, your servant, have feared the Lord from my youth.
1 Kings 18:13
Has it not been reported 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?