Eliyahu the Tishbi, who was of the foreigners of Gil`ad, said to Ach'av, As the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Luke 4:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Yisra'el in the days of Eliyahu, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed up for three years and six months, so that there came a great famine over all the land; American Standard Version (1901) But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land; Common English Bible And I can assure you that there were many widows in Israel during Elijah’s time, when it didn’t rain for three and a half years and there was a great food shortage in the land. Catholic Public Domain Version In truth, I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine had occurred throughout the entire land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In truth I say to you, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth. |
Eliyahu the Tishbi, who was of the foreigners of Gil`ad, said to Ach'av, As the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
In that same hour Yeshua rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, *I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.*
For he said to Moshe, *I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.*
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, *Why did you make me like this?*
in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;
making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
Eliyahu was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.