The .xviii. Chapter.
1 Elias is sent to Ahab. 13 Obadia hideth an hundred prophetes. 40 Elias killeth all Baals prophetes. 45 He obtayneth rayne.
[unspec A] 1 AFter processe of many dayes, the word of the Lord came to Elias in the third yere, saying: Go shewe thy selfe vn∣to Ahab, and I wyll sende rayne vpon the earth.
2 And Elias went to shewe him selfe vn∣to Ahab: and there was a great famish∣ment in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadia, which was the gouernour of his house: (and Oba∣dia feared God greatly.
4 For when Iezabel destroyed the pro∣phets of the Lord, Obadia toke an hun∣dred prophets, and hid them by fiftie in a caue, and prouided bread and water for them.)
5 And Ahab saide vnto Obadia: Go in∣to the lande, vnto all fountaines of wa∣ter, and vnto all brookes, if happyly we may finde grasse to saue the horses and mules aliue, and that we destroy not [some of] the beastes.
6 And so they deuided the lande be∣tweene them to walke through it: A∣hab went one way by him selfe, and O∣badia went another way by him selfe.
7 And it chaunced that as Obadia was [unspec B] in the way, beholde Elias met him, and he knew him, and fell on his face, and saide: Art not thou my lorde Elias?
8 And he aunswered him, I am he: Go, and tel thy lorde, beholde, Elias is here.
6 He saide: What haue I sinned, that thou wouldest delyuer thy seruaunt in∣to the hande of Ahab, to slay me?
10 As the Lorde thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, why∣ther my lord hath not sent to seeke thee: And when they saide, he is not there: he toke an oth of the kingdome and nati∣on when he found thee not.
11 And now thou sayest, Go, and tell thy lorde that Elias is here.