“And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.”
King James Version (KJV)
18:9 He said - Wherein have I offended God, and thee, that thoushouldest expose me to certain ruin.
18:10 No nation - Near his own, where he could in reason think thatElijah had hid himself. It does not appear, that Ahab sought him,in order to put him to death: but rather in hopes of prevailing upon him,to pray for the removal of the drought.
18:12 Carry thee - Such transportations of the prophets havingdoubtless been usual before this time, as they were after it.Slay me - Either as one that hath deluded him with vain hopes: or,because I did not seize upon thee, and bring thee to him.But I, &c. - He speaks not these words, in a way of boasting; but thathe might move the prophet to spare him, and not put him upon thathazardous action.