So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. Ahab called Obadiah (A)who was over the household. (Now Obadiah [a](B)feared the Lord greatly; for (C)when Jezebel [b]destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and (D)provided them with bread and water.)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 18:3 Or revered
  2. 1 Kings 18:4 Lit cut off

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.

Now the famine was severe(A) in Samaria, and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator.(B) (Obadiah was a devout believer(C) in the Lord. While Jezebel(D) was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden(E) them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied(F) them with food and water.)

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