Luke 4:25

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the Lord.

Matthew 20:15

[Or] am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’

Luke 10:21

At that very moment he rejoiced [in] the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

Romans 9:15

For he says to Moses: “I will show mercy to whom I will, I will take pity on whom I will.”

Romans 9:20

But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is made say to its maker, “Why have you created me so?”

Ephesians 1:11

In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will,

Ephesians 1:9

he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him

James 5:17

Elijah was a human being like us; yet he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain upon the land.

Revelation 11:6

They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of their prophesying. They also have power to turn water into blood and to afflict the earth with any plague as often as they wish.