The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Eliyahu will come to save him.
And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
Y'shuw`a, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And Eliyah-yahu the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilad, said unto Achav, As YY Elohim of Yisrael liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Saying, Elohim hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.