18 1 Elijah is sent to Ahab. 13 Obadiah hideth an hundred Prophets. 40 Elijah killeth all Baal’s prophets. 45 He obtaineth rain.

After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the [a]third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.

And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

And Ahab called Obadiah the governor of his house: (and Obadiah [b]feared God greatly:

For when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took an hundred Prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and he fed them with bread and water.)

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the rivers, if so be that we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, lest we deprive the land of the beasts.

And so they divided the land between them to walk through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:1 After that he departed from the river Cherith.
  2. 1 Kings 18:3 God had begun to work his fear in his heart, but had not yet brought him to that knowledge, which is also requisite of the godly: that is, to profess his Name openly.

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