Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
As the lord god
Before whom
Dew nor rain
Bible References
As the lord god
Matthew 7:29
for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.
Luke 1:17
He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."
Before whom
Luke 1:19
The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.
Luke 21:36
But you must be vigilant and always pray that you may succeed in escaping all this that is going to happen, and in standing in the presence of the Son of Man."
Acts 27:23
For last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve stood before me,
Dew nor rain
Luke 4:25
But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,
James 5:17
Elijah was a man like us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and for three years and six months there was no rain in the land.
Revelation 11:6
They have the power to shut up the sky, so that no rain will fall during the days when they are prophesying, and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to smite the earth with any plague whenever they please.