6So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.


In Context

3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly:

4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it thou, my lord Elijah?

8 And he answered him, It is I: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here .

1 Kings 18:6 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

18:6So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

18:6And they divided the countries between them, that they might go round about them: Achab went one way, and Abdias another way by himself.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6And they divided the land between them to pass through it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

18:6And they apportion to themselves the land, to pass over into it; Ahab hath gone in one way by himself, and Obadiah hath gone in another way by himself;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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.