1 Kings 18:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ After many days the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year of the drought, saying, “Go, present yourself to Ahab; I will send rain on the earth.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

Common English Bible

¹ After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah (it was the third year of the drought): Go! Appear before Ahab. I will then send rain on the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ After many days, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, "Go and show yourself to Ahab, so that I may grant rain upon the face of the earth."

1 Kings 18:1 Cross References

Luke 4:25

But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land,

James 5:17

Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

Joel 2:23

O children of Zion, be glad, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Revelation 11:6

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

Amos 4:7

And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

1 Kings 17:15

She went and did as Elijah said, so that she as well as he and her household ate for many days.

1 Kings 17:7

But after a while the wadi dried up because there was no rain in the land.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

1 Kings 8:36

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.