Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

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Bible References

Behold

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

General references

2 Peter 3:6
by which things the world that then was, having been overflowed with water, perished.