1Ki 17:1, Jam 5:17 | ESV | STEP | Now Elijah the Tishbite , of Tishbe in Gilead , said to Ahab , As the Lord , the God of Israel , lives , before whom I stand , there shall be neither dew nor rain these years , except by my word .

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah Predicts a Drought

1 Now 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.”

James 5:17

17 Elijah was a man ^fwith a nature like ours, and ^ghe prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^hthree years and six months it did not rain on the earth.