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1 Kings 18:8
“He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 18
6
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
7
As Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, "Is it you, my lord Elijah?
8
He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here!
9
He said, "Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
10
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, 'He is not here,' he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn't find you.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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