that time
it was that Ethbaal also reigned over the Tyrians, as Menander informs
us.

3. Now this woman, of whom we spake before, that sustained the prophet,
when her son was fallen into a distemper till he gave up the ghost,
and appeared to be dead, came to the prophet weeping, and beating her
breasts with her hands, and sending out such expressions as her passions
dictated to her, and complained to him that he had come to her to
reproach her for her sins, and that on this account it was that her son
was dead. But he bid her be of good cheer, and deliver her son to
him, for that he would deliver him again to her alive. So when she had
delivered her son up to him, he carried him into an upper room, where he
himself lodged, and laid him down upon the bed, and cried unto God,
and said, that God had not done well, in rewarding the woman who had
entertained him and sustained him, by taking away her son; and he prayed
that he would send again the soul of the child into him, and bring him
to life again. Accordingly God took pity on the mother, and was willing
to gratify the prophet, that he might not seem to have come to her to
do her a mischief, and the child, beyond all expectation, came to life
again. So the mother returned the prophet thanks, and said she was then
clearly satisfied that God did converse with him.

4. After a little while Elijah came to king Ahab, according to God's
will, to inform him that rain was coming. Now the famine had seized upon
the whole country, and there was a great want of what was necessary for
sustenance, insomuch that it was after the recovery of the widow's son
of Sarepta, God sent not only men that wanted it, but the earth itself
also, which did not produce enough for the horse and the other beasts
of what was useful for them to feed on, by reason of the drought. So the
king called for Obadiah, who was steward over his cattle, and said to
him, that he would have him go to the fountains of water, and to the
brooks, that if any herbs could be found for them, they might mow it
down, and reserve it for the beasts. And when he had sent persons all
over the habitable earth [33] to discover the prophet Elijah, and they
could not find him, he bade Obadiah accompany him. So it was resolved
they should make a progress, and divide the ways between them; and
Obadiah took one road, and the king another. Now it happened that the
same time when queen Jezebel slew the prophets, that this Obadiah had
h