An Israelite who was chief in the household of King Ahab. The King James Version names Obadiah in 6 verses, from 1 Kings 18:3 to 1 Kings 18:16. The King James Version also gives the name Obadiah to 11 other people, listed on this page.
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Who Obadiah was.
An Israelite who was chief in the household of King Ahab (1 Kings 18:3). Amid great spiritual degeneracy he maintained his fidelity to God, and interposed to protect The Lord’s prophets, an hundred of whom he hid at great personal risk in a cave (4, 13). Ahab seems to have held Obadiah in great honour, although he had no sympathy with his piety (5, 6, 7). The last notice of him is his bringing back tidings to Ahab that Elijah, whom he had so long sought for, was at hand (9-16). “Go,” said Elijah to him, when he met him in the way, “go tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.”
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
All 6 verses that name this Obadiah.
1 Kings 6
1 Kings 18:3And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
1 Kings 18:4For 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.)
1 Kings 18:5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
1 Kings 18:6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
1 Kings 18:7And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
1 Kings 18:16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
Other people called Obadiah.
Obadiah, a Levite, after the Captivity.
Named in 3 verses.
1 Chronicles 9:16And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
Nehemiah 11:17And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
Nehemiah 12:25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
Obadiah, a descendant of Saul.
Named in 2 verses.
1 Chronicles 8:38And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 9:44And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
Obadiah.
Named in 1 verse. Speaks in 1 verse, first in Obadiah 1:18.
Obadiah 1:1The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
Obadiah, Son of Hananiah.
Named in 1 verse.
1 Chronicles 3:21And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.
Obadiah, a chief of the tribe of Issachar.
Named in 1 verse.
1 Chronicles 7:3And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
Obadiah, a Gadite who joined David at Ziklag.
Named in 1 verse.
1 Chronicles 12:9Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
Obadiah, a prince of Zebulun in the time of David.
Named in 1 verse.
1 Chronicles 27:19Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
Obadiah, One of the princes sent by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people….
Named in 1 verse.
2 Chronicles 17:7Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.
Obadiah, a Levite who superintended the repairs of the temple under….
Named in 1 verse.
2 Chronicles 34:12And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.
Obadiah, One who accompanied Ezra on the return from Babylon.
Named in 1 verse.
Ezra 8:9Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.