1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Eli´jah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
2 And Eli´jah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
3 And Ahab called Obadi´ah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadi´ah feared the Lord greatly:
4 for it was so, when Jez´ebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadi´ah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
5 And Ahab said unto Obadi´ah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadi´ah went another way by himself.
7 And as Obadi´ah was in the way, behold, Eli´jah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Eli´jah?