And Ahab called Obadiah who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Yahweh greatly.

And it happened that when Jezebel was cutting down the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water.)

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to cut down some of the cattle.”

So they divided the land between them to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself and Obadiah went another way by himself.