Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Cut off the prophets
In a cave
Bread and water
General references
Bible References
Cut off the prophets
Nehemiah 9:26
“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who warned them
To return to You;
And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.
“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who warned them
To return to You;
And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.
Matthew 21:35 But the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.
Revelation 17:4
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones and pearls, [and she was] holding in her hand a gold cup full of the abominations and the filth of her [sexual] immorality.
In a cave
Hebrews 11:38
(people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and [living in] caves and holes in the ground.
Fed them
1 Kings 18:13
Has it not been told to my lord [Elijah] what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the Lord, how I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?
2 Kings 6:22
Elisha answered, “You shall not kill them. Would you kill those you have taken captive with your sword and bow? Serve them bread and water, so that they may eat and drink, and go back to their master [King Ben-hadad].”
Matthew 10:40 “He who receives and welcomes you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.
Matthew 25:35 For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;
Bread and water
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your house (wealth), I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
General references
Jeremiah 36:19
Then the princes said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are.”
Matthew 21:35 But the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.