A moment in scripture
1 Kings 18:2
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And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Kings 18:1
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
- 1 Kings 18:3
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly:
- 1 Kings 18:4
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.