1 Kings 17:1
Elijah Predicts a Drought
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of aTishbe ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
in Gilead, said to Ahab, c“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, dbefore whom I stand, ethere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 1 Kings 17:7
7And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.1 Kings 17:15
15And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.Luke 4:25
25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when fthe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,James 5:17
17Elijah was a man gwith a nature like ours, and hhe prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ithree years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
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