1 Kings 18:3 (GNV)

Passage

And Ahab called Obadiah the gouernour of his house: (and Obadiah feared God greatly:

Nearby Context

1 Kings 18:1 After many dayes, the worde of the Lord came to Eliiah, in the third yeere, saying, Goe, shewe thy selfe vnto Ahab, and I will sende rayne vpon the earth.

1 Kings 18:2 And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto Ahab, and there was a great famine in Samaria.

1 Kings 18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah the gouernour of his house: (and Obadiah feared God greatly:

1 Kings 18:4 For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of the Lord, Obadiah tooke an hundreth Prophets, and hid them, by fiftie in a caue, and he fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab saide vnto Obadiah, Goe into the land, vnto all the fountaines of water, and vnto all the riuers, if so be that we may finde grasse to saue the horses and the mules aliue, lest we depriue the lande of the beastes.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "ahab", "obadiah", "gouernour", "house", "feared", and "greatly". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "ahab", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "And Eliiah went to shew himselfe vnto..." into verse 4's "For when Iezebel destroyed the Prophets of...", so "called" and "ahab" belong inside that flow. In 1 Kings context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "ahab" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.