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,

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

So you must be on your guard and remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped warning any of you, even with tears.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;

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.