◄ 1 Kings 18:6 ►
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Good News Translation
They agreed on which part of the land each one would explore, and set off in different directions.

New Revised Standard Version
So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.

Contemporary English Version
You go one way, and I'll go the other." Then they left in separate directions.

New American Bible
Dividing the land to explore between them, Ahab went one way by himself, Obadiah another way by himself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.

Ahab went

Jeremiah 14:3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

Context
Elijah Confronts Ahab
…5And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish. 6And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.7And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?…
Cross References
1 Kings 18:5
And Achab said to Abdias: Go into the land unto all fountains of waters, and into all valleys, to see if we can find grass, and save the horses and mules, that the beasts may not utterly perish.

1 Kings 18:7
And as Abdias was in the way, Elias met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: Art thou my lord Elias?

1 Kings 18:5
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