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
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.
Matthew 21:35
and the husbandmen caught his servants, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
Revelation 17:4
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, precious stone, and pearls, and had a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations, and filthiness of her fornication.
In a cave
Hebrews 11:38
which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.
Fed them
1 Kings 18:13
Was it not told my lord what I did, when Jezebel slew the Prophets of the LORD? How I hid a hundred of the LORD's Prophets, fifty in one cave and as many in another, and provided them of bread and water?
2 Kings 6:22
And he said, "Smite them not. But smite them thou takest with thine own sword and with thine own bow. But set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink, and go to their master."
Matthew 10:40
He that receiveth you, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
Matthew 25:35
For I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat. I thirsted, and ye gave me drink. I was harborless, and ye lodged me. I was naked and ye clothed me.
Bread and water
1 Kings 13:8
But the man of God answered the king, "If thou wouldest give me half thine house, I would not go with thee - neither would I eat meat or drink water in this place.
General references
Jeremiah 36:19
Then said the princes unto Baruch, "Go thy way, and hide thee with Jeremiah, so that no man know where ye be."
Matthew 21:35
and the husbandmen caught his servants, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.