Benaiah came to the Tent of the LORD, and said to him, "Thus says the king, 'Come forth.'" He said, "No; but I will die here." Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."

"Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan.

He answered him, "It is I. Go, tell your lord, 'Behold, Elijah is here.'"

As the LORD 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 did not find you.

Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here."'

Now you say, 'Go, tell your lord, "Behold, Elijah is here";' and he will kill me."

And there he came to a cave and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

It was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"

As your servant was busy here and there, he was gone." The king of Israel said to him, "So your judgment shall be; you yourself have decided it."

But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of him?"