Examples of use of Obadiah
1. "You think he needed forty days and forty nights to drown every man and beast and creeping thing?" Obadiah comments.
2. When Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them, 50 to a cave, and provided them with food and drink " In other words, Obadiah feared the Lord more than he feared the wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, who were Jewish.
3. Charged with trespass: Victoria Smith and Obadiah Marius They were arrested only when they reached the secret corridor which joins the building to No 10.
4. Wearing a tracksuit and T–shirt, Obadiah Marius, 34, and his girlfriend Victoria Smith, 1', walked in off the street into the Cabinet Office, went through at least two doors and strolled freely around.
5. Indeed, there are at least three sources relevant to civil disobedience in Israel today÷ In I Kings (18÷3–4), we are told that "Obadiah revered the Lord greatly.