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
Now I tell you of a certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a grievous famine was upon all the land.
James 5:17
Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.
Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut up the heaven, that no rain water the earth during 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.

General references

2 Peter 3:6
whence the world then existing, being deluged by water, was destroyed;