1 Kings 18:4
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While Jezebel was killing off the LORD’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
Read 1 Kings 18:4 Using Other Translations
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.)
and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
Once when Jezebel had tried to kill all the LORD ’s prophets, Obadiah had hidden 100 of them in two caves. He put fifty prophets in each cave and supplied them with food and water.)
What does 1 Kings 18:4 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Kings 18:4
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the
Lord,
&c.] Or slew them, as the Targum; put them to death some way
or another; such as were brought up in the schools of the
prophets, trained up in religious exercises, and instructed
others therein:
that Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by
fifty in a
cave;
fifty in one cave and fifty in another; for there were large
caves in the land of Israel capable of holding such a number, and
many more, see ( 1 Samuel
22:1 ) ( 24:3 ) and
fed them with bread and water; which in this time of famine were
very acceptable; though these may be put for all the necessaries
of life.
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