1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel had slaughtered the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty men per cave, providing them with food and water.)
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.)
Note Jezebel: Heb. Izebel
for when Jezebel cut off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Jezebel
- Heb. Izabel. cut off the prophets.
- Nehemiah 9:26; Matthew 21:35; Revelation 17:4–6
- in a cave
- Hebrews 11:38
- fed them
- 1 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 6:22, 23; Matthew 10:40–42; Matthew 25:35, 40
- bread and water
- 1 Kings 13:8, 9, 16