1 Kings 18:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:16

“I cannot return with you or go with you, and I cannot eat bread or drink water with you in this place,” he answered,

1 Kings 17:11

She left to get it, and he called out after her, “Please bring along a crust of bread.”

1 Kings 18:13

Have you not been told, my lord, what I did when Jezebel was murdering the prophets of the Lord—that I hid a hundred of the prophets of the Lord, fifty each in caves, and supplied them with food and water?

1 Kings 18:5

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all sources of water and to all the wadies. We may find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, so that we shall not have to slaughter any of the beasts.”

2 Kings 6:32

Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house in conference with the elders. The king had sent one of his courtiers; but before the messenger reached him, Elisha said to the elders: “Do you know that this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you close the door and hold it fast against him. His master’s footsteps are echoing behind him.”

2 Kings 9:7

You shall destroy the house of Ahab your master; thus will I avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the other servants of the Lord shed by Jezebel.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Isaiah 16:3

Offer counsel, take their part; at high noon make your shade like the night; Hide the outcasts, do not betray the fugitives.

Jeremiah 26:24

But the hand of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, protected Jeremiah, so they did not hand him over to the people to be put to death.

Jeremiah 36:19

The princes said to Baruch, “Go into hiding, you and Jeremiah; do not let anyone know where you are.”

Matthew 21:35

But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned.

Matthew 25:35

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me,

Matthew 25:40

And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’

Hebrews 11:38

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in deserts and on mountains, in caves and in crevices in the earth.