1Ki 18:1 Cross References
1 Kings 18:1
1: After many months passed, in the third year of the drought, the LORD said to Elijah, "Go and present yourself to King Ahab. Tell him that I will soon send rain!"
James 5:17
- Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years!
Luke 4:25
- "Certainly there were many widows in Israel who needed help in Elijah's time, when there was no rain for three and a half years and hunger stalked the land.
Deuteronomy 28:12
- The LORD will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens to bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.
1 Kings 17:1
- Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"
Leviticus 26:4
- I will send the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees will produce their fruit.
1 Kings 17:7
- But after a while the brook dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land.
1 Kings 18:2
- So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. Meanwhile, the famine had become very severe in Samaria.
1 Kings 18:15
- But Elijah said, "I swear by the LORD Almighty, in whose presence I stand, that I will present myself to Ahab today."
- So Obadiah went to tell Ahab that Elijah had come, and Ahab went out to meet him.
- "So it's you, is it--Israel's troublemaker?" Ahab asked when he saw him.
- "I have made no trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "You and your family are the troublemakers, for you have refused to obey the commands of the LORD and have worshiped the images of Baal instead.
- Now bring all the people of Israel to Mount Carmel, with all 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who are supported by Jezebel."
Psalms 65:9
- You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The rivers of God will not run dry; they provide a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so.
- You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
- You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
- The wilderness becomes a lush pasture, and the hillsides blossom with joy.
- The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy!
1 Kings 17:15
- So she did as Elijah said, and she and Elijah and her son continued to eat from her supply of flour and oil for many days.
Joel 2:23
- Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the LORD your God! For the rains he sends are an expression of his grace. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.
Isaiah 5:6
- I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."
Jeremiah 14:22
- Can any of the foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, it comes from you, the LORD our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
Jeremiah 10:13
- When he speaks, there is thunder in the heavens. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Revelation 11:6
- They have power to shut the skies so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to send every kind of plague upon the earth as often as they wish.
Amos 4:7
- "I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
Revelation 11:2
- But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months.