Ach'av said to `Ovadyah 1, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
1 Kings 18:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ach'av went one way by himself, and `Ovadyah 1 went another way by himself. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went one way and Obadiah went another way, each by himself. American Standard Version (1901) So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. Common English Bible To search, they divided the land between themselves. Ahab went one way by himself, while Obadiah went a different way by himself. Catholic Public Domain Version And they divided the regions among themselves, so that they might travel through them. Ahab went one way alone, and Obadiah went another way by himself. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself. |
Ach'av said to `Ovadyah 1, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
As `Ovadyah 1 was in the way, behold, Eliyahu met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Eliyahu?
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.