Genesis 8:2
2 aThe fountains of the deep and bthe windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,1 Kings 17:1
Elijah Predicts a Drought
1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of cTishbe ▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
in Gilead, said to Ahab, e“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, fbefore whom I stand, gthere 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.
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