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.
