Thematic Bible: Drought
Thematic Bible
Drought » General reference to
Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.
Verse Concepts
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.
Verse Concepts
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
Verse Concepts
in the land of drought.
Drought » Instances of
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”
Verse Concepts
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
Verse Concepts
Drought » Sent by God as a judgment
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people,
Verse Concepts
an east wind will come,
a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.
His water source will fail,
and his spring will run dry.
The wind
of every precious item.
Drought » Figurative
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit
and My blessing on your offspring.
Elijah » Miracles of » Drought
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”
Verse Concepts
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
Verse Concepts
God » God's Judgments » Drought » General references to » Examples of
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”
Verse Concepts
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
Verse Concepts
Grass » Destroyed by » Drought
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”
Verse Concepts
Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”
Verse Concepts
Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.
Miracles » Of elijah » Drought
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”
Verse Concepts
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.
Verse Concepts
Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
because they lack knowledge;
her
and her
He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a scorched land.
A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.
Verse Concepts
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
the young men also, will faint from thirst.