1 Kings 18:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord— From these words one can hardly imagine, that all those hundred whom Obadiah preserved, 1 Kings 18:13 were men actually inspired, and invested with a prophetic character. There is little doubt but that even in Jezebel's time there were remaining in Israel schools of the prophets, which she endeavoured to destroy, as well as those who were bred up in them, that there might be none left to instruct the people in the true religion. These she certainly looked upon as enemies to her idolatry; and she might possibly persuade her husband that they were disaffected to his government, and favourers of the kings of Judah, because they worshipped the same God, and thought that the proper place of his worship was Jerusalem; and therefore the greater was the piety and courage of Obadiah in rescuing so many victims from the hands of this furious and enraged woman. See Patrick and Le Clerc.