Add parallel Print Page Options

Elijah Stops the Rain

17 (A) Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead.[a] One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living Lord, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 17.1 from Tishbe in Gilead: Or “from the settlers in Gilead.”

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.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:1 Or Tishbite, of the settlers