1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you—you who are causing trouble for Israel?”
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16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and then Ahab went to meet Elijah.
Cross References
1 Kings 21:20“So have you come to find me, my enemy?” Ahab asked Elijah. “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the Lord's sight,” Elijah replied.
Jeremiah 38:4The officers told the king, “This man deserves to die because he's demoralizing the defenders left in the city, and all the people too, by telling them this. This man isn't trying to help these people, he's only going to destroy them.”
Acts 16:20They brought them in front of the magistrates, and accused them: “These Jewish men are causing a great disturbance in our town,” they said.
Acts 24:5We discovered that this man is a real pest, stirring up rebellions among Jews all over the world, a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.
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 →