Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 18:3

3 And Ahab called Obadiah which was the governour of his house : (now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly :

Being valued by Ahab for his great prudence and fidelity, and therefore indulged as to the worship of the Calves and Baal.

Quest. How could he and some other Israelites be said to fear the Lord, when they did not go up to Ierusalem to Worship, as God had Commanded? Ans. Although they seem not to be wholly excusable in this neglect, because they should have preferred Gods Service before their Worldly commodity, according to the good example of the Priests and Levites, and the generality of the Godly People who did so, 2 Chron. 11. 13, 16. yet because they Worshipped God in Spirit and Truth, and performed all Moral Duties to God and their Brethren, and abstained from Idolatry, and being kept from Ierusalem by violence, they thought necessity, and the apparent hazard of their Lives, would excuse them from Ceremonial Services; and God bare with their infirmity herein.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ahu.; Heb. over [illegible: 1 word] house.