1 Kings 18:2

2 So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

1 Kings 18:2 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 18:2

And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab
Which showed his cheerful and ready obedience to the will of God, and his great courage and magnanimity, to face a king enraged against him, and that sought his life:

and there was a sore famine in Samaria;
the metropolis of the kingdom, where Ahab kept his court, and therefore must be sensible of it, and bore the greater indignation against the prophet who had foretold it.

1 Kings 18:2 In-Context

1 After many days the word of the LORD came to Eli'jah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth."

2 So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

3 And Ahab called Obadi'ah, who was over the household. (Now Obadi'ah revered the LORD greatly;

4 and when Jez'ebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadi'ah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5 And Ahab said to Obadi'ah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals."