1 Kings 18:12-14

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. 1  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. 2  That would not be fair, 3  because your servant has been a loyal follower of 4  the Lord from my youth. 18:13 Certainly my master is aware of what I did 5  when Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water. 18:14 Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ 6  but he will kill me.”

1 tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

2 tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

3 tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

4 tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

5 tn Heb “Has it not been told to my master what I did…?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “Of course it has!”

9 tn Heb “Look, Elijah”; or “Elijah is here.”