1 Kings 18:12
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.
1 Kings 18:44
18:44 The seventh time the servant 5 said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah 6 then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 7
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 “he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Elijah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “so that the rain won’t restrain you.”