1 Koningen 18:5

Staten Vertaling

En Achab had gezegd tot Obadja: Trek door het land, tot alle waterfonteinen en tot alle rivieren; misschien zullen wij gras vinden, opdat wij de paarden en de muilezelen in het leven behouden, en niets uitroeien van de beesten.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En Achab zeide tot Obadja: Trek heen door het land tot alle waterfonteinen en beken, of wij gras mochten vinden en de paarden en muilezels behouden, opdat het vee niet altemaal verga.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Achab zeide tot hem: Welaan, laat ons het land doortrekken, naar alle waterwellen en naar alle beken; misschien vinden wij gras om de paarden en muilezels in het leven te houden, zodat wij niet gans van vee verstoken raken.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

grass: Psalms 104:14, Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6, Joel 1:18, Joel 2:22, Habakkuk 3:17, Romans 8:20-22

we lose not all the beasts: Heb. we cut not off ourselves from the beasts

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:32 - their trade hath been to feed cattle Genesis 47:13 - so that Deuteronomy 11:15 - And I will 1 Kings 10:25 - and mules Psalms 107:33 - watersprings Jeremiah 14:3 - their nobles Joel 1:20 - the rivers Amos 4:8 - two

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks,.... To observe in what condition they were, and the places adjoining to them, the meadows and valleys:

peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive; particularly those which belonged to the king's stables, to find provisions for which it was found difficult:

that we lose not all the beasts; many of them, doubtless, were lost through the drought already, and there was great danger of the rest, and so, in time, of there being none to procreate and preserve their species, and to prevent which Ahab proposed to take this method.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks - Rather, “to all springs of water and to all torrent-courses.” The former are the perennial streams; the latter are the torrent-courses which become dry in an ordinary summer.

All the beasts - Rather, some, or, “a portion of our beasts.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 18:5. Unto all fountains of water — All marshy or well-watered districts, where grass was most likely to be preserved.