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1 Kings 18:4 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 18 · verse 4
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)1 Kings 18:4 · King James Version
1 Kings 18:4 in context
2And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
4For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
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Key words (Strong's)
- prophetsnâbîyʼa prophet or inspired manH5030 →
- JezebelʼÎyzebelIzebel, the wife of king AhabH348 →
- ObadiahʻÔbadyâhObadjah, the name of thirteen IsraelitesH5662 →
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- fiftyʼîysha man as an individual or a male personH376 →
- fiftychămishshîymfiftyH2572 →
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In these verses we find, I. The sad state of Israel at this time, upon two accounts: - 1. Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord (Kg1 18:4), slew them, Kg1 18:13. Being an idolater, she was a persecutor, and made Ahab one.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16