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Elijah and Obadiah

18 When there had been no rain for three years, the Lord told Elijah, ‘Go and meet King Ahab. After that, I will send rain to make the ground wet again.’ So Elijah went to meet Ahab.

At that time, the famine in Samaria was very bad. King Ahab told his officer Obadiah to come and meet him. Obadiah had authority over the king's palace.

Obadiah obeyed the Lord very faithfully.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:3 The name Obadiah means ‘servant of the Lord’.