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Job 12:15
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Job 12:15
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15 If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert.
If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.
Job 12:15
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Job 12:15
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1 Kings 17:1
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1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah Fed by Ravens
17 Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
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1 Kings 17:1
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1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah Announces a Great Drought
17 Now Elijah(A) the Tishbite, from Tishbe[a] in Gilead,(B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain(C) in the next few years except at my word.”
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 17:1 Or Tishbite, of the settlers
Revelation 11:6
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Revelation 11:6
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6 They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
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Revelation 11:6
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Revelation 11:6
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6 They have power to shut up the heavens(A) so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying;(B) and they have power to turn the waters into blood(C) and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
James 5:17-18
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James 5:17-18
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17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
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James 5:17-18
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James 5:17-18
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17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are.(A) He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.(B) 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.(C)
Luke 4:25
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Luke 4:25
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25 “Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.
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Luke 4:25
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Luke 4:25
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25 I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.(A)
Nahum 1:4
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Nahum 1:4
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4 At his command the oceans dry up,
and the rivers disappear.
The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade,
and the green forests of Lebanon wither.
Nahum 1:4
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Nahum 1:4
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Amos 5:8
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Amos 5:8
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8 It is the Lord who created the stars,
the Pleiades and Orion.
He turns darkness into morning
and day into night.
He draws up water from the oceans
and pours it down as rain on the land.
The Lord is his name!
Amos 5:8
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Amos 5:8
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Jeremiah 14:22
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Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain?
Does it fall from the sky by itself?
No, you are the one, O Lord our God!
Only you can do such things.
So we will wait for you to help us.
Jeremiah 14:22
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Jeremiah 14:22
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Psalm 104:7-9
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Psalm 104:7-9
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7 At your command, the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
8 Mountains rose and valleys sank
to the levels you decreed.
9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas,
so they would never again cover the earth.
Psalm 104:7-9
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Psalm 104:7-9
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Job 12:10
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Job 12:10
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10 For the life of every living thing is in his hand,
and the breath of every human being.
Job 12:10
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Job 12:10
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1 Kings 8:35-36
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1 Kings 8:35-36
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35 “If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them, 36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.
1 Kings 8:35-36
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1 Kings 8:35-36
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35 “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain(A) because your people have sinned(B) against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, 36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach(C) them the right way(D) to live, and send rain(E) on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.
Genesis 7:11-8:2
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Genesis 7:11-8:2
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11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons—Shem, Ham, and Japheth—and their wives. 14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. 15 Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes. 16 A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth, 20 rising more than twenty-two feet[a] above the highest peaks. 21 All the living things on earth died—birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people. 22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died. 23 God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat. 24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.
The Flood Recedes
8 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.
Footnotes
- 7:20 Hebrew 15 cubits [6.9 meters].
Genesis 7:11-8:2
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Genesis 7:11-8:2
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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(D) were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.(E)
13 On that very day Noah and his sons,(F) Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.(G) 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind,(H) everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.(I) 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah.(J) Then the Lord shut him in.
17 For forty days(K) the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.(L) 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[a][b] (M) 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.(N) 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life(O) in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth.(P) Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.(Q)
24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.(R)
8 But God remembered(S) Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth,(T) and the waters receded. 2 Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens(U) had been closed, and the rain(V) had stopped falling from the sky.
Footnotes
- Genesis 7:20 That is, about 23 feet or about 6.8 meters
- Genesis 7:20 Or rose more than fifteen cubits, and the mountains were covered
Genesis 6:17
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Genesis 6:17
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17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.
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Genesis 6:17
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Genesis 6:17
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17 I am going to bring floodwaters(A) on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.(B)
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