⁷ As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized^(A) him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”

¹⁰ As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look^(A) for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you.

²¹ When King Jehoiakim^(A) and all his officers and officials^(B) heard his words, the king was determined to put him to death.^(C) But Uriah heard of it and fled^(D) in fear to Egypt. ²² King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan^(E) son of Akbor to Egypt, along with some other men. ²³ They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword^(F) and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)^(G)

² and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus,^(A) so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way,^(B) whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And he has come here with authority from the chief priests^(A) to arrest all who call on your name.”^(B)

⁵ as the high priest and all the Council^(A) can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates^(B) in Damascus,^(C) and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.