Luke 4:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁵ But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,   when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed up for three years and six months, so that there came a great famine over all the land;

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

Common English Bible

²⁵ And I can assure you that there were many widows in Israel during Elijah’s time, when it didn’t rain for three and a half years and there was a great food shortage in the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land.

Luke 4:25 Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah  the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,  , said to Ahab, ‘As the Lord God of Israel lives,  in whose presence I stand, there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command! ’

Isaiah 55:8

‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.’ This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous   because I’m generous? ”   ,

Luke 10:21

At that time  he  rejoiced in the Holy  Spirit  and said, ‘I praise   you, Father,   Lord of heaven and earth,   because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent   and revealed them to infants.   Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.   ,

Romans 9:15

For he tells Moses, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.   ,

Romans 9:20

On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?  Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? ’

Ephesians 1:11

In him we have also received an inheritance,  because we were predestined  according to the plan of the one who works out everything in agreement with the purpose of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

He made known to us the mystery of his will,  according to his good pleasure that he purposed in Christ

James 5:17

Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.

Revelation 11:6

They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy.  They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood  and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.