1 Kings 17:1-2

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Elijah Predicts a Drought

17 ^[a]Now Eli′jah the Tishbite, of Tishbe^[b] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” ²And the word of the Lord came to him,

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17.1 With this description of the drought begins the prophetic career of Elijah, the great opponent of the nature religion that flourished in the northern kingdom and that Ahab and his Phoenician wife, Jezebel, were so active in promoting.
1 Kings 17:1 Gk: Heb of the settlers

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