Luke 4:25

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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,

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.”

Isaiah 55:8

The LORD says: “My thoughts and my ways are not like yours.

Matthew 20:15

Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?”

Luke 10:21

At that same time, Jesus felt the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, and he said: My Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I am grateful that you hid all this from wise and educated people and showed it to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that is what pleased you.

Romans 9:15

The Lord told Moses that he has pity and mercy on anyone he wants to.

Romans 9:20

But, my friend, I ask, “Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?

Ephesians 1:11

God always does what he plans, and that's why he appointed Christ to choose us.

Ephesians 1:9

and by what Christ has done, God has shown us his own mysterious ways.

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 11:6

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.