1. AFTER MANY days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.
2. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
3. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly;
4. For 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.)