1 Kings 18:4 meaning and explanation
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.)
1 Kings 18:4, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse sits inside a parenthesis explaining why Obadiah, Ahab's palace administrator, feared the LORD. Jezebel, Ahab's wife and a patron of Baal, had been killing the prophets of the LORD, and Obadiah risked his position by hiding a hundred of them, fifty to a cave, and supplying them with food and water during a severe famine.
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