And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
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Gill's Exposition
And he said, what have I sinned,.... Or in what have I offended God or his prophet, that revenge should be taken on me in this way:
that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab to…
Barnes' Notes
Obadiah thinks that to execute this commission will be fatal to him 1Ki 18:12.
In these verses we find,
I. The sad state of Israel at this time, upon two accounts: -
1. Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord (Kg1 18:4), slew them, Kg1 18:13. Being an idolater, she was a…
Cambridge Bible
What[R.V. wherein] have I sinned Obadiah's fear is very natural. He is asked to carry a message to Ahab, which another disappearance of Elijah may make to seem untrue. He thinks in his alarm that the…