1 Kings 18:12 (GNV)

Passage

And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord shall cary thee into some place that I doe not know: so when I come and tell Ahab, if he cannot finde thee, then wil he kill me: But I thy seruant feare the Lord from my youth.

Nearby Context

1 Kings 18:10 As the Lord thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, if they had not found thee.

1 Kings 18:11 And now thou sayest, Goe, tell thy lorde, Beholde, Eliiah is here.

1 Kings 18:12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord shall cary thee into some place that I doe not know: so when I come and tell Ahab, if he cannot finde thee, then wil he kill me: But I thy seruant feare the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 18:13 Was it not tolde my lord, what I did when Iezebel slew the Prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundreth men of the Lordes Prophets by fifties in a caue, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18:14 And now thou sayest, Go, tel thy lord, Behold, Eliiah is here, that he may slay me.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "Spirit", "gone", "thee", "lord", "shall", "cary", and "some". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "Spirit" and "gone", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "And now thou sayest Goe tell thy..." into verse 13's "Was it not tolde my lord what...", so "Spirit" and "gone" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "Spirit" and "gone" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.