“It is I,” he answered him. Go tell your lord, ‘Look, Elijah is here!”
Ahab summoned Obadiah who was the steward of the palace. Now Obadiah feared Adonai greatly—
As Obadiah was on the road, all of a sudden, Elijah met him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
“How have I sinned,” he replied, “that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?
Pay to everyone what is due them—tribute to whom tribute is due; tax to whom tax is due; respect to whom respect is due; honor to whom honor is due.