1 Kings 18:7

Meeting of Obadiah and Elijah (Not in Chronicles)

7. and he knew him The prophet's garb would probably make him easy to be recognized, and he must have been seen more than once in Samaria, and by Ahab's household. The LXX. renders καὶ ἔσπευσε = and he hastened.

fell on his face For to Obadiah Elijah would seem to be God's special representative, and the champion of the cause of the true religion. Josephus, wrongly, represents Elijah as bowing down to Obadiah. The expressions -lord" and -servant" or rather -slave" used by Obadiah are indexes of his fear of Elijah.

Art thou that my lord Elijah? R.V. better, - Is it thou, my lord Elijah?" The word which A.V. translates is merely an addition to render the pronoun emphatic. See note on 1 Kings 17:2-7, where the emphatic particle is the same as in this verse.