1 Kings 18:3

3 Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly:

1 Kings 18:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:3

And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house,
&c.] Perhaps his steward: the Jews ^F13 take him to be Obadiah the prophet, who wrote the small prophecy that goes by his name:

(now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:)
who, though he did not go up to Jerusalem to worship, which ceremonial service was dispensed with in him, yet he did not worship the calves, nor Baal, but served the Lord in a spiritual manner.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 39. 2.

1 Kings 18:3 In-Context

1 It happened after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Eliyah, in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ach'av; and I will send rain on the eretz.

2 Eliyah went to show himself to Ach'av. The famine was sore in Shomron.

3 Ach'av called `Ovadyah, who was over the household. (Now `Ovadyah feared the LORD greatly:

4 for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5 Ach'av said to `Ovadyah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.