Eliyahu’s encounters with Ovadyahu and Ahav prove to him that the way he has chosen to lead the nation to teshuva has failed. Eliyahu redirects the confrontation between himself and Ahav from the painful and controversial past to a somewhat opaque future situation in which there will be cooperation between them, with a view to a positive solution to the suffering of the famine. Eliyahu and Ahav’s confrontation here is in stark contrast to their confrontation at the vineyard of Navot

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