2. So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
3. And Ahab called Obadiah, who was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly;
4. For when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
5. And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, that we lose none of the beasts.
6. So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went one way and Obadiah went another way, each by himself.
7. As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him and fell on his face and said, Are you my lord Elijah?