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
But I tell you in truth that there was many a widow in Israel in the time of Elijah, when there was no rain for three years and six months and there came a severe famine over all the land;
James 5:17
Elijah was a man with a nature similar to ours, and he earnestly prayed that there might be no rain: and no rain fell on the land for three years and six months.
Revelation 11:6
They have power given to them to seal up the sky, so that no rain may fall so long as they continue to prophesy; and power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with various plagues whenever they choose to do so.

General references

2 Peter 3:6
and that, by means of these, the then existing race of men was overwhelmed with water and perished.