limping (pāsaḥ, translated “waver”)22 between two opinions—to decide who is God and then act on that decision. Obadiah is a good man trapped between two competing worldviews. Ahab is a king who may be wondering if his “ancestral” God is more powerful than his wife’s deity. The people are noncommittal at best. They “limp” along without conviction, wanting to follow halfheartedly one god and then the other. 18:22–25 Only Elijah and, ironically, the prophets of Baal have any conviction. Both Elijah
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