OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 18:3

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

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Verse 3. Abdias. Some suppose that he was the fourth of the minor prophets, or the husband of the Sunamitess, (4 Kennicott. 4) or the third of the captains, who were ordered by Ochozias to seize Elias, 4 Kennicott. 1:13. Tirinus.—But this is uncertain. He took care of the persecuted prophets, (ver. 4. 13,) judging it better to obey God than man. Calmet.

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