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

Bible References

As the lord god

Matthew 7:29
for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.
Luke 1:17
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Before whom

Luke 1:19
And the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel, who stand before God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to tell you this good news.
Luke 21:36
But watch continually, praying that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are about to occur, and to stand before the Son of man.
Acts 27:23
For an angel of the God whose I am, and whom I serve, came to me this night

Dew nor rain

Luke 4:25
I also tell you of a truth, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that there was a great famine over all the land;
James 5:17
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land for three years and six months;
Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with every plague as often as they will.