Elijah Calls for a Drought

17 Elijah the foreigner,^[a] who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, in whose presence I’m standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so.”

² Later, this message came to him from the Lord: ³ “Leave here and go into hiding at the Wadi^[b] Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River.^{[c] 4} You will be able to drink from that brook, and I’ve commanded some crows to sustain you there.”

⁵ So Elijah^[d] left and did exactly what the Lord had told him to do—he went to live near the Wadi^[e] Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River. ⁶ Crows would bring him bread and meat both in the morning and in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. ⁷ But after a while,^[f] the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.