Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

In the third year

Bible References

After many days

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 11:2
but leave out the court outside the temple; do not measure that, for it has been given up to the heathen, and for forty-two months they will trample on it.

In the third year

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.