Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron.

Leviticus 26:19

I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze.

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so."

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab, right when the famine in Samaria was most severe.

Jeremiah 14:1-6

This is this message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Amos 4:7

"I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.

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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

The language here is remarkable

General references

Bible References

The language here is remarkable

1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so."
1 Kings 18:2
So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab, right when the famine in Samaria was most severe.
Jeremiah 14:1
This is this message from the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Amos 4:7
"I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.

General references

Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back from you what is good.
Haggai 1:10
That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.

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