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1 Kings 18:5 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 18 · verse 5
And 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.1 Kings 18:5 · King James Version
1 Kings 18:5 in context
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.
7And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- peradventureʼûwlayif notH194 →
- fountainsmaʻyâna fountain , figuratively, a sourceH4599 →
- ObadiahʻÔbadyâhObadjah, the name of thirteen IsraelitesH5662 →
- brooksnachala stream, especially a winter torrentH5158 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
- AhabʼAchʼâbAchab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at BabylonH256 →
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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