Elijah Predicts Drought

17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of ^[a](A)the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “^(B)As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, ^(C)there shall certainly be neither dew nor rain during these years, except by my word.”

²⁵ But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel ^(A)in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a ^[a]severe famine came over all the land;

¹⁷ Elijah was ^(A)a man with a nature like ours, and ^(B)he prayed ^[a]earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for ^(C)three years and six months.