1 Kings 18:13 (WEB)

Passage

Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

Nearby Context

1 Kings 18:11 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

1 Kings 18:12 It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

1 Kings 18:13 Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 18:14 Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

1 Kings 18:15 Elijah said, “As Yahweh of Armies lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "wasn", "told", "lord", "jezebel", "killed", "yahweh", "prophets", and "hundred". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "wasn" and "told", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "It will happen as soon as I..." into verse 14's "Now you say Go tell your lord...", so "wasn" and "told" 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 "wasn" and "told" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.