“It is I,” he answered him. Go tell your lord, ‘Look, Elijah is here!”
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.
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?