1 Kings 18:1

Conservative English Version

For three years no rain fell in Samaria, and there was almost nothing to eat anywhere. The LORD said to Elijah, "Go and meet with King Ahab. I will soon make it rain." So Elijah went to see Ahab.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. 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."

1 Kings 17:15

The widow went home and did exactly what Elijah had told her. She and Elijah and her family had enough food for a long time.

1 Kings 17:7

But after a while, it dried up because there was no rain.

1 Kings 18:2

(SEE 18:1)

1 Kings 8:36

listen from your home in heaven and forgive them. The people of Israel are your servants, so teach them to live right. And please send rain on the land you promised them forever.

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Jeremiah 10:13

The waters in the heavens roar at your command. You make clouds appear-- you send the winds from your storehouse and make lightning flash in the rain.

Jeremiah 14:22

Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the LORD our God.

Joel 2:23

People of Zion, celebrate in honor of the LORD your God! He is generous and has sent the autumn and spring rains in the proper seasons.

Leviticus 26:4

and I will send rain to make your crops grow and your trees produce fruit.

Amos 4:7

Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.

Luke 4:25

Once during the time of Elijah there was no rain for three and a half years, and people everywhere were starving. There were many widows in Israel,

Deuteronomy 28:12

The LORD will open the storehouses of the skies where he keeps the rain, and he will send rain on your land at just the right times. He will make you successful in everything you do. You will have plenty of money to lend to other nations, but you won't need to borrow any yourself.

James 5:17

Elijah was just as human as we are, and for three and a half years his prayers kept the rain from falling.

Revelation 11:2

But don't measure the courtyard outside the temple building. Leave it out. It has been given to those people who don't know God, and they will trample all over the holy city for forty-two months.

Revelation 11:6

They have the power to lock up the sky and to keep rain from falling while they are prophesying. And whenever they want to, they can turn water to blood and cause all kinds of terrible troubles on earth.