1 Kings 18:12
And it shall come to pass when I shall have departed from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee to a land which I know not, and I shall go in to tell the matter to Achaab, and he will not find thee and will slay me: yet thy servant fears the Lord from his youth.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
11And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Eliu is here.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:26And the child Samuel advanced, and + 2:26 Gr. was good.was in favour with God and with men.
1 Samuel 16:2And Samuel said, How can I go? whereas Saul will hear of it, and slay me: and the Lord said, Take a heifer in thine hand and thou shalt say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
2 Kings 2:11And it came to pass as they were going, they + 2:11 Gr. went and talked.went on talking; and, behold, a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and it separated between them both; and Eliu was taken up in a whirlwind as it were into heaven.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.
Psalms 71:17Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure + 71:17 Gr. before.longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Ecclesiastes 7:18It is well for thee to hold fast by this; also by this defile not thine hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 18:2-17
The Character of Obadiah; Elijah's Interview with Obadiah. ( b. c. 906.) 1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria. 3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: 4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord , that Obadiah took a… Read the whole commentary →