Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.
KJV
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
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And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab,.... Which showed his cheerful and ready obedience to the will of God, and his great courage and magnanimity, to face a king enraged against him, and that sought his life:
and there was a sore famine in Samaria; the metropolis of the kingdom, where Ahab kept his court, and therefore must be sensible of it, and bore the greater indignation against the prophet who had foretold it.
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