1. Long afterward, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: Go, present yourself to Ahab, that I may send rain upon the earth.
2. So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.Now the famine in Samaria was severe,
3. and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, master of his palace, who greatly revered the Lord.
4. When Jezebel was slaughtering the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them away by fifties in caves, and supplied them with food and water.