Nave’s Topical Bible
Obadiah
15 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- The governor of Ahab's house
- Conceals one-hundred prophets persecuted by Jezebel in a Cave
- Meets Elijah and receives a commission from him
- Head of a family
- A descendant of Tola
- Son of Azel
- A Levite
- A Gadite warrior who joined David at Ziklag
- Father of Ishmaiah
- A prince of Judah who instructed the people in the law
- A Levite
- One of the overseers in the repairing of the temple by Josiah
- 10. A descendant of Joab who returned from Babylon
- 11. A priest who sealed a covenant with Nehemiah to observe God's law
- 12. A gatekeeper of Jerusalem, under Nehemiah
- 13. A prophet who prophesied the destruction of Edom
Bible verses about “Obadiah”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 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 18:8And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
- 1 Kings 18:9And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
- 1 Kings 18:10As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
- 1 Kings 18:11And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
- 1 Kings 18:12And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.
- 1 Kings 18:13Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
- 1 Kings 18:14And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
- 1 Kings 18:15And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.
- 1 Kings 18:16So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 Chronicles 12:9Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
- 1 Chronicles 27:19Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 17:8And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob–adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
- 2 Chronicles 17:9And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
- 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.
- Ezra 8:9Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
- Nehemiah 10:5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
- Nehemiah 12:25Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
- 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.