9 “Rise up, go to Zarʹe·phath,+ which belongs to Siʹdon, and you must dwell there. Look! I shall certainly command there a woman, a widow, to supply you food.”

18 And it came about [after] many days+ that Jehovah’s own word came to E·liʹjah in the third year, saying: “Go, show yourself to Aʹhab, as I am determined to give rain* upon the surface of the ground.”+

17 E·liʹjah was a man with feelings like ours,+ and yet in prayer he prayed for it not to rain;+ and it did not rain upon the land for three years and six months.