1. After many days the word of the Lord came to Elias, in the third year, saying: Go and shew thyself to Achab, that I may give rain upon the face of the earth.
2. And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
3. And Achab called Abdias the governor of his house: now Abdias feared the Lord very much.
4. For when Jezabel killed the prophets of the Lord, he took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifty and fifty in caves, and fed them with bread and water.