1Ki 17:1, Luk 4:25, Jam 5:16-18 | 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.”

Luke 4:25

25 But 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 5:16-18

16 Therefore, ^gconfess your sins to one another and pray for one another, ^hthat you may be healed. ⁱThe prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. ^{▼▼Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power} 17 Elijah was a man ^kwith a nature like ours, and ^lhe prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^mthree years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 ⁿThen he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.