📖WEB · 1 Kings 18:6
What does 1 Kings 18:6 mean?
"So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself."
— 1 Kings 18:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly;
for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.”
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”
He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?
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