17 Elijah was a man (A)with a nature like ours, and (B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

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Elijah Predicts a Drought

17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers

25 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when (A)the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

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They have the power (A)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (B)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

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Elijah Confronts Ahab

18 (A)After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”

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15 “Men, (A)why are you doing these things? We also are men, (B)of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that (C)you should turn from these (D)vain things to (E)a living God, (F)who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

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26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, (A)“Stand up; I too am a man.”

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(A)God has not rejected his people whom he (B)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

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