1. After many days, The LORD's word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth."

2. Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

3. Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly;

4. for when Jezebel cut off The LORD's prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5. Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals."

6. So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.