9"What have I done wrong," asked Obadiah, "that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?


In Context

6 So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.

7 As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, "Is it really you, my lord Elijah?"

8 "Yes," he replied. "Go tell your master, 'Elijah is here.' "

9 "What have I done wrong," asked Obadiah, "that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?

10 As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.

11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, 'Elijah is here.'

1st Kings 18:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said: What have I sinned, that thou wouldst deliver me thy servant into the hand of Achab, that he should kill me?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, What have I sinned, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to slay me?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:9He said, |Wherein have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:9And he saith, 'What have I sinned, that thou art giving thy servant into the hand of Ahab — to put me to death?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

18:9And he said, What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?