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1 Kings 18:3

1 Kings chapter 18 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:

Context

v.2And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

v.3This passage

v.4for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Nehemiah 7:2

    that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

  • Nehemiah 5:15

    But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

  • Genesis 42:18

    And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

  • Genesis 22:12

    And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

  • 1 Kings 18:12

    And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

  • 1 Kings 16:9

    And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah: