And Ahab had called Obadiah, who was [a]in charge of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly. For so it was, while Jezebel [b]massacred the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water.) And Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, so that we will not have to kill any livestock.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:3 Lit. over the house
  2. 1 Kings 18:4 Lit. cut off

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